cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk kmod.mk

Jeff Roberson jroberson at chesapeake.net
Sun Nov 16 16:22:21 PST 2003


On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:04:20 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au> said:
>
> > Agreed, this is required the support the bug.
>
> Not everyone agrees that this is a bug.
>
> I would, however, be willing to stipulate that it is worth limiting
> the number of option combinations a third-party vendor would need to
> support.

Anymore than 1 per release is too much test load for an officially
supported product.  We're only going to further deter companies from
providing binary only drivers if they aren't going to work with most
kernels.  Furthermore, we're likely to crash if the driver is not
compatible with the kernel.

>
> -GAWollman
>



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