From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 22 0:11: 3 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E89BF11C17 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:11:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id GAA16056; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 06:55:12 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199902220555.GAA16056@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Current status of the olicom fracas. To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 06:55:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, lile@stdio.com, dcs@newsguy.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Julian Elischer" at Feb 21, 99 02:32:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 737 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message