From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 21:54:25 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 30E8C16A4CE; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 21:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw (www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw [140.138.145.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F377A43D4C; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 21:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw) Received: by www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw (qmail, from userid 1000) id 9F9B64EFD0E; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:53:29 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw (qmail) with ESMTP id 9584F4EFCE3; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:53:29 +0800 (CST) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:53:29 +0800 (CST) From: Tai-hwa Liang To: Michael Nottebrock In-Reply-To: <200406042042.05123.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Message-ID: <04060512374716.69305@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> References: <200406042042.05123.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: Scott Long 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 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04:54:25 -0000 On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Friday 04 June 2004 20:14, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > 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. > > Probably because there IS NO userbase of those drivers. I certainly have a > hard time imagining there are still people around with a GUS or Roland > MPU-401 and using it for MIDI on FreeBSD-CURRENT... Well, I *did* have a GUS running on an AMD5x86 PC until 2 years ago; however, since the VoxWare sound support was removed since 4-STABLE, that box was still running 3.3-RELEASE to get MIDI support. It's really a surprise to me that sys/dev/sound/midi was removed from recent -CURRENT since MIDI was one of the most important reasons I upgraded(another box with Creative SoundBlaster 16 + YAMAHA DB50XG daughter board) from 4-STABLE to -CURRENT. I'm really looking forward to the merging of new MIDI framework. If there's anything I can help, please don't hesitate to drop me a mail.