Actually I think that any driver that can be included in FreeBSD is welcome
I don't see why you guys are always so cautious about this, it just make
FreeBSD lag behind in terms hardware support.
these drivers can stay in LINT for those who want to use them
and you could have russian people test these and support it
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:44:03 -0700
Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It doesn't actually make a lot of sense to bundle a driver like this with
> FreeBSD; none of the developers are going to be able to test against it,
> and your customers are typically going to be running against the -stable
> branch anyway.
>
> Personally, I would recommend a driver like this be built and distributed
> as a KLD; it's fairly easy to package so that you can unpack and build
> under /sys/modules (just put everything in the module directory).
>
> You can also ship pre-build KLDs, making runtime loading of the driver
> very straightforward. Just put the kld in /modules, and ensure that it's
> named appropriately (if_snbi.ko). ifconfig will load it automatically on
> the first attempt to configure the interface.
>
> I note that you've made some modifications to the kernel MIB. You'd
> probably want to keep a private copy of these mods for your driver's
> internal use.
>
> The ifconfig changes were meant to make it easier for folks like
> yourselves to provide network interface drivers without having to
> integrate them tightly with the kernel tree; let me know if we're still
> falling short...
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
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