I've been watching this thread, perhaps my comments are worth
something, or are amusing. Executive summary: track -current.
Make releases in step with OpenBSD.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Kevin Cheng wrote:
> Artur,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Upgrade code based on release of obsd is easy, but it would a big job
Kevin Cheng wrote:
Upgrade code based on release of obsd is easy, but it would a big job to
maintain early released of products based on previous version of obsd. For
example, we would maintain 8 version of products from 3.3 to 4.0 if codes
are upgraded every half years.
Why? If you do an OS
On 8/27/07, Kevin Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Artur,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Upgrade code based on release of obsd is easy, but it would a big job to
> maintain early released of products based on previous version of obsd. For
> example, we would maintain 8 version of products from 3.3 to 4.0 if co
Artur,
Thanks,
Upgrade code based on release of obsd is easy, but it would a big job to
maintain early released of products based on previous version of obsd. For
example, we would maintain 8 version of products from 3.3 to 4.0 if codes
are upgraded every half years.
Kevin
you would need to
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:19 AM
> > To: Kevin Cheng
> > Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:33:34AM +0800, Kevin Cheng wrote:
> > > What would be the safe way to b
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:21 AM
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:42:34AM +0800, Kevin Cheng wrote:
> > Hi Darrin,
> >
> > Thanks for reply.
> >
> > The reason is that we have bunch of
Kevin Cheng wrote:
> Hi Darrin,
>
> Thanks for reply.
>
> The reason is that we have bunch of files integrated with 4.0 and it would
> take us months to upgrade to 4.2 again. we just finished from 3.3 to 4.0 of
> upgrade few months ago, plus months of test to stabilize our 4.0 based
> application
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:42:34AM +0800, Kevin Cheng wrote:
> Hi Darrin,
>
> Thanks for reply.
>
> The reason is that we have bunch of files integrated with 4.0 and it would
> take us months to upgrade to 4.2 again. we just finished from 3.3 to 4.0 of
> upgrade few months ago, plus months of tes
heng
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:33:34AM +0800, Kevin Cheng wrote:
> > What would be the safe way to backport driver codes from
> 4.1 to 4.0, such as
> > (/usr/src/sys/dev) ci, pcmcia, usb?
>
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:33:34AM +0800, Kevin Cheng wrote:
> What would be the safe way to backport driver codes from 4.1 to 4.0, such as
> (/usr/src/sys/dev) ci, pcmcia, usb?
For most values of "safe" the answer is none.
With the upcoming 4.2 release, 4.0 will be unsupported. Your backports
wi
Hi,
What would be the safe way to backport driver codes from 4.1 to 4.0, such as
(/usr/src/sys/dev) ci, pcmcia, usb?
Thanks,
Kevin
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