is anyone maintaining hifn(4)?

[emily ingalls <emily@ingalls.rocks>]

hi,

i recently got a card that uses a Hifn 7955, and figured i'd take a look at the driver for it while i was setting it up. i almost immediately found issues that would likely cause hangs or crashes (maybe even damage to the chip, not sure) on some machines, possibly unexpectedly slow operation on others, and could have unexpected and hard to detect side effects elsewhere due to possible clock instability.

i have a vested interest in having this driver work properly and securely in NetBSD, and i'm interested in sending in patches and possibly doing a more extensive audit/rewrite, but it looks like the driver is currently disabled, and there's been little work the past few years that hasn't been pulling changes from openbsd. so... is anyone maintaining it at all?

would i be better off going to OpenBSD for this, and then trying to merge updates here once they're accepted there (despite having little interest in OpenBSD personally)?