Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 17:39:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with merging in local changes with CVS etc... Message-ID: <19970504173956.HN10108@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970504022647.obiwan@zeppelin.net>; from Josh Howard on May 4, 1997 02:26:10 -0700 References: <m0wNx6P-000BzNC@joes.users.spiritone.com> <XFMail.970504022647.obiwan@zeppelin.net>
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As Josh Howard wrote: > I did a send-pr for this a while ago, it's now somewhere in the > gnats database waiting for some kind commiter to add it to the > source tree... A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a > child of five. The problem with all this is: . Nobody stepped forward to maintain it actively. Just committing it risks to make this a stale piece of software some day. We've got examples for this in the tree. . 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.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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