From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 4 08:50:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA00601 for current-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 08:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA00588 for ; Sun, 4 May 1997 08:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA21995 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 4 May 1997 17:50:52 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02134; Sun, 4 May 1997 17:39:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970504173956.HN10108@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 17:39:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with merging in local changes with CVS etc... References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Josh Howard on May 4, 1997 02:26:10 -0700 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Josh Howard wrote: > I did a send-pr for this a while ago, it's now somewhere in the > gnats database waiting for some kind commiter to add it to the > source tree... A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a > child of five. The problem with all this is: . Nobody stepped forward to maintain it actively. Just committing it risks to make this a stale piece of software some day. We've got examples for this in the tree. . There has been more than one objection against the design of the entire driver (this includes the design of the lp(4) driver as well). All this cries for a rewrite, with the actual hardware driver as a controller, and the software drivers (lpt(4), ppa(4), lp(4)) on top. While lp(4) is halfways smart enough to plug in comfortably, and only steals the lpt(4) functionality while being ifconfig'ed ``up'', i think ppa(4) is doing even worse, basically requiring you to have two different kernels or such. (This is heresay, i didn't look very closely to its sources.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)