kern/176281: [ixgbe] [patch] Update ixgbe to 2.4.10 (latest official driver)

[Jack Vogel]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdport at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> 2013/2/21 Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com>
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>> Sorry, I know there are always new people that may not know me. I am the
>> driver developer at
>> Intel specifically for FreeBSD, and for various reasons there are
>> multiple release paths for my
>> code, an internal one that ends up being on the Intel web site, and the
>> community path which
>> ends up in the public source. I do my best to keep them in sync but at
>> times due to how busy
>> I am with what, they may vary a bit, but that should always be a
>> temporary situation that I will
>> remedy.
>>
>> I have been busy for a number of weeks on an important internal project
>> but that's winding down
>> and I'm playing catch-up at the moment, so this stuff should get sync'ed
>> up soon.
>>
>>
> Jack,
>
> Thanks by all work you have done.
>
> And a lot of people know you as the guy in charge of Intel drives! In my
> case, as I really need at least the driver 2.4.10 and I didn't see any MFC
> on HEAD(driver 2.5.0), I decide to send the patch.
>
> Hopefully you will find time to update the driver. Thank you once again!
>
>
> Thanks, and don't worry, the driver from HEAD will be headed back to
stable/9 just as soon as I
am able.

Jack