Adding new media types to if_media.h

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 02/28/15 13:28, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, February 27, 2015 10:23:10 PM Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 08:25:59PM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> A> [snip]
>> A>
>> A> I think Mike's approach is good - it makes it easy to MFC to 10.2
>> A> since there's extended lifecycle stuff to do there - and then we can
>> A> plan out how do the "betterer" fix after it's landed and churned
>> A> things.
>>
>> ... and we will be ought to support the "betterer" fix along with
>> the "not so betterer" for a very long time.
>>
>> The rock on which we split in this argument is that some developers
>> write their code for stable/x and then forward-port it to head,
>> focused on quality of result for stable/x; while other developers
>> do the opposite: write code to head, then consider or not consider
>> merging it stable/x.
>
> No, this is not quite true.  Some folks have to write drivers on HEAD but also
> support running those drivers on older branches.  The MFC's get harder when
> you have very different APIs on the different branches.  It's already harder
> to test stat changes now since it requires completely different patches for
> <= 10 (the only thing people are supposed to use in production) vs head due to
> if_getcounter() and friends.  Also, since 11 won't be out until 2016, that is
> far, far too long to wait for more media types.  The stuff we need to support
> is already shipping in products today.  We can't not support these in 10 (and
> possibly 9).
>

Any news on this issue? Is anyone working on a solution for -head ?

--HPS