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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:34:34 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Current status of the olicom fracas. 
Message-ID:  <57188.919625674@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:15:20 %2B0100." <17431.919624520@critter.freebsd.dk> 

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I think we're going in circles on this argument right now and I'd like
to simply leave things as they are until more people in core have had
the chance to comment.  I'm specifically interested in David's
reaction since we may need him to play "tie breaker" on this one, but
David is also at OSDI in New Orleans at the moment and probably hasn't
seen any of this discussion.  Since he's our principal architect and
the guy we elected to have final say on contraversial issues exactly
like this one (I don't see a core team concensus coming together on
this yet but maybe one will and DG won't even have to break a tie),
we need to get his input before any final "ruling" on this is
made.  Given the mixed reactions I've seen so far on this issue, it
may well wind up being his decision by default.

- Jordan

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211336080.9637-100000@heathers.stdio.com>, Larr
y 
> 
> >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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