From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 21 11:37:21 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from heathers.stdio.com (heathers.stdio.com [199.89.192.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CDF1149F for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lile@stdio.com) Received: from heathers.stdio.com (lile@heathers.stdio.com [199.89.192.5]) by heathers.stdio.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11451; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:21:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lile@stdio.com) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:21:36 -0500 (EST) From: Larry Lile To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Julian Elischer , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current status of the olicom fracas. In-Reply-To: <17431.919624520@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 , 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! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message