From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 23 23:44:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CCC16A46E for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:44:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mureninc@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE6313C4CB for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:44:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mureninc@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so288062anc for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:44:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rolE1fsZ50JCzuuw2sAYkHgvJjjbsyZ88qsb0q4H4smv1dhLlscbIJQiFLPe9nLG64kGJoAgDGJo3lCE6f2WZIu3AjNJ2b9YC+POtlshRijXukWoAQO2+eNvQ1W5QuG7Jo+QeqvTZycb0nl96bDlAsSSQKz03HTOq7l7K+mPEvM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CfCbFS0yyH+LyhMfQcU4a959w3NGozUme2r+FKGeDiOFuFEhPe403tZVwrMzFmNsQC/nI52L1RE8pq+A2yAXLi1YmXLA3uIgKDzXQaic+4y7SC3s3PC8zhNZE5vVdG/OJmJppbcNL12P6AROYsGjXiNUmV2WfdhHDhg5gHMdf8c= Received: by 10.100.153.17 with SMTP id a17mr2398400ane.1182640575030; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.189.2 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:16:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:16:14 -0400 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" To: "Die Gestalt" In-Reply-To: <5bf3e10d0706231303q5c7f7128r8a0f82310f5bb7ad@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <86veetgnk4.fsf@dwp.des.no> <863b1nvqqa.fsf@dwp.des.no> <5bf3e10d0705230314w3038a532uf0d8c0ed18a5d05f@mail.gmail.com> <5bf3e10d0705240839x17792a96hf17e6eebfa5a83da@mail.gmail.com> <5bf3e10d0705241345t11e739we0b896bab868fec6@mail.gmail.com> <5bf3e10d0706010709yab08f21s256cb894118d3bf4@mail.gmail.com> <5bf3e10d0706040455j2015a2dan685e7e80db66bd95@mail.gmail.com> <5bf3e10d0706220746y1a114792scd1ec59b95ed0ca4@mail.gmail.com> <20070623182130.GE55189@elvis.mu.org> <5bf3e10d0706231303q5c7f7128r8a0f82310f5bb7ad@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generic int 13h driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:44:29 -0000 On 23/06/07, Die Gestalt wrote: > Unlikely in the short term. I made this driver for my employer, I think > there might be reluctance about releasing it to the public. On one hand this > would most likely increase the quality of the code, on the other hand this > might hurt us in helping competition. I know this would be cool since there > are people out there who would like this feature. Keep in mind that not giving the code away to FreeBSD might make future merging of the code more difficult for your employer, hence once more reason for you to release the code. :) Cheers, Constantine.