Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-28 Thread Marmotic Marvel
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 to

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-27 Thread Kevin Cheng
, 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 files integrated with 4.0 and it would take us months to upgrade to 4.2

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-27 Thread Artur Grabowski
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? For most values of safe the answer is none. With the upcoming 4.2 release, 4.0

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-27 Thread Kevin Cheng
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

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-27 Thread Darren Spruell
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 codes are

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Shockley
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

Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-26 Thread Kevin Cheng
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

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
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 will

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-26 Thread Kevin Cheng
@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? For most values of safe the answer is none. With the upcoming

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-26 Thread Joachim Schipper
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 test to

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-26 Thread Nick Holland
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 applications.