From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 28 14:16:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA04967 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:16:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA04937 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:16:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA01682; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:15:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601282215.PAA01682@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:15:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com In-Reply-To: <199601281819.FAA19242@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 29, 96 05:19:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >This driver needs a) a hardware > >modification in the plugs and b) need mgetty because the interlock between > >incoming and outgoing calls is not done in the driver (so it must be done > >with mgetty). a) and b) are not acceptable for my purposes. > > It only needs mgetty if you want to do both incoming and outgoing calls. The calling unit/non-calling unit device interlock (even though I disagree with using that approach to line sharing) is a trivial fix. The use of mgetty is evil because of assumptions made by mgetty, independent of which driver it is used on. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.