Re: fwe -> fwip in GENERIC?

From: Doug Rabson (dfr_at_nlsystems.com)
Date: 10/18/05

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    To: Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.org>
    
    

    On 18 Oct 2005, at 13:21, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:

    > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:12:18 +0100
    > Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote:
    >
    >> The fwip implementation should be fully compatible with the RFC
    >> standard. I'm happy for fwip to replace fwe in GENERIC unless anyone
    >> else has an objection.
    >>
    >
    > I disagree. Because fwip and fwe can exist together.
    > So I think that fwip should be added to GENERIC.

    Sure - both drivers are tiny and they don't step on each others toes.
    Longer term, I think we should try to phase out the fwe driver since
    it doesn't interoperate with any other systems (except Df, I guess).

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