Re: nfe(4) & GENERIC

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Chris Turner <c.turner@199technologies.org> wrote:
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> Wondering what the policy is on drivers in GENERIC
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> or perhaps more specifically if there are any objections to
> adding nfe(4)

Several months ago there were two drivers support nVidia NICs, both of
them were not hooked into GENERIC, so that user could choose which one
to use.  Now nv(4) has gone and nfe(4) code seems to be semi-supported
by nVidia, so there is no hindrance to hook nfe(4) into GENERIC.
Please do it :)

Best Regards,
sephe

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> or do we only want to build in 'good samaritans' that release specs ?
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> I started to do the pciconf cha-cha until I realized this
> wasn't there - one kldload later and was happily ping -fing away much to
> the displeasure of my switches :)
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> cheers
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> - Chris
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