Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 18:48:01 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with merging in local changes with CVS etc... Message-ID: <5560.862764481@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 May 1997 17:39:56 %2B0200." <19970504173956.HN10108@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In message <19970504173956.HN10108@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch writes: >. 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.) YES, listen to that man! And don't forget qcam while we're at it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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