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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:21:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Current status of the olicom fracas. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211417360.10455-100000@heathers.stdio.com>
In-Reply-To: <17431.919624520@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Jordan, David and any other -core members, what is your take
on things?  Since neither I nor Poul have a final say on things.
Any suggestions?

Larry Lile
lile@stdio.com


On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211336080.9637-100000@heathers.stdio.com>, Larry 
> 
> >So are my suggestions for making my driver and Olicom's objects more
> >palatble to the source tree not acceptable?  What are the points of
> >contention?  I would like to know so that I can see what else I could
> >do to fix this.
> 
> They are not acceptable to me.  An object file just simply doesn't
> count as "source" in my book.
> 
> >I do think it is important to make the distinction between my driver
> >"if_oltr.c" and Olicom's "trlld.o".  There is nothing about my driver, or
> >Olicom's header file "trlld.h", that violate the spirit of the source
> >tree.  I think that the driver and header are fine where they live in
> >dev/oltr as it is a combined ISA/PCI driver.
> 
> Sure, it's only that one file I have a problem with, and only because
> we do not have the source.
> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!
> 



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