Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 11:44:01 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), mestery@winternet.com, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with my Wincast, fxtv Message-ID: <199708171844.LAA06486@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:21:30 %2B0200." <199708171121.NAA09146@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Just ignore Michael's posting -- it says nothing . Anyone with a little intellingence can discern from my posting that I am *very* upset with isa_dmastatus. Amancio >From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo : > > Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > > > > > Next release of the sound driver will not use isa_dmastatus from isa.c > > > rather I will duplicate the functionality in the sound driver. > > > > Am I the only person that thinks that this is unbelievably stupid? > > > > All of a sudden, the sound drivers are the only kernel subsystem that > > need PnP support, and now ISA DMA support too? Please spare a few > > seconds thought for the integrity of the system as a whole, rather > > than as a vehicle for your pet projects... > > I think amancio has to fight with backward compatibility, that's > why he wants to ship a standalone driver (guspnpXX.tgz) with all the > pieces he needs. BUt of course, in the long term, Mike is right. > > Cheers > Luigi
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