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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 1999 06:55:12 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, lile@stdio.com, dcs@newsguy.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Current status of the olicom fracas.
Message-ID:  <199902220555.GAA16056@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211431030.282-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Feb 21, 99 02:32:40 pm

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> > to be in the freebsd source tree to be used.  There are quite a
> > few pieces of software "floating around" for FreeBSD that is not
> > in the source tree.  (There are also quite a number of bits in the
> > source tree that shouldn't be in there, but rather should be separate
> > packages).
> 
> As it is now, puting a driver in some external place is the kiss of death.
> I KNOW OF no such pieces "floating around" that are in common usage,
> because there is no way to easily find them.

not sure about this. Before the "pcm" driver went into the source tree
i had fairly high hit rates on my web server. Granted, not as many users
as for other parts of the system, but how many token ring users do
we expect after all.

	luigi



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