From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 11:14:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6312216A4CE; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakermmtao12.cox.net (lakermmtao12.cox.net [68.230.240.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB1243D3F; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net ([68.11.70.23]) by lakermmtao12.cox.netESMTP <20040604181434.PERG27642.lakermmtao12.cox.net@ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net>; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:14:34 -0400 Received: from ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net (localhost.no.no.cox.net [127.0.0.1])i54IEYp9005697; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:14:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost)i54IETgV005696; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:14:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.5 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <40BF7AE9.3020002@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:14:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier To: Scott Long cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Paul Seniura Subject: Re: What happened to src/sys/dev/sound/midi ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: conrads@cox.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:14:58 -0000 On 03-Jun-2004 Scott Long wrote: > Paul, > > I'm not going to respond to your follow-up nor am I going to reply in > line as most of your comments are abrasive and inappropriate. Yes, > the removal of the MIDI code should have had a HEADS-UP message to the > mailing list and it should have had an UPDATING entry. It would have > even been nicer if the new code had been imported immediatly after > the old code was removed. If you would like to help solve this then I > would suggest contacting Seigo directly and asking what you can do to > help, rather than showing us all that your caps-lock key works (or > maybe it was stuck and you need to get it fixed?). Unfortunately, this is *not* the first time something like this has happened in FreeBSD's history. There was quite a furor back when the old Voxware drivers were about to be yanked (leaving us with *no* MIDI support in its place), yet it was done anyway, despite the protests of a number of users (myself included). If the man comes across as a little "abrasive", it's probably because he's a little upset at having functionality he's come to rely on suddenly removed without warning. You can hardly blame him, really. Why couldn't this have been held off until the replacement drivers were ready to be added? This makes no sense to me at all. -- Conrad Sabatier - "In Unix veritas"