From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 05:10:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA11240 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 05:10:25 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA11234 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 05:10:16 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA20038; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 22:06:26 +1000 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 22:06:26 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199504041206.WAA20038@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: ache@astral.msk.su, bde@zeta.org.au, smpatel@wam.umd.edu, swallace@ece.uci.edu Subject: Re: Whee - I've got my MBONE feed.. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>The old, broken ioctl must be preserved until you are sure that there >>are no applications using it, i.e., "forever". >Can we claim old binaries support even if original author (Hannu) claims >just opposite thing? Really? Maybe when we go to the 3.0 version of the sound drivers. I didn't know that the author didn't try to preserve compatibility. Bruce