Re: is anyone maintaining hifn(4)?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <546B7BF6-14BE-4DD9-B06A-7B603F229870@ingalls.rocks>,
emily ingalls  <emily@ingalls.rocks> wrote:
>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)?


I don't know Emily, it is up to you. We well gladly take patches.

Best,

christos