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Date:      Sun, 04 May 1997 18:48:01 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with merging in local changes with CVS etc... 
Message-ID:  <5560.862764481@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 May 1997 17:39:56 %2B0200." <19970504173956.HN10108@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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In message <19970504173956.HN10108@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch writes:

>. There has been more than one objection against the design of the
>  entire driver (this includes the design of the lp(4) driver as well).
>  All this cries for a rewrite, with the actual hardware driver as a
>  controller, and the software drivers (lpt(4), ppa(4), lp(4)) on top.
>  While lp(4) is halfways smart enough to plug in comfortably, and
>  only steals the lpt(4) functionality while being ifconfig'ed ``up'',
>  i think ppa(4) is doing even worse, basically requiring you to have
>  two different kernels or such.  (This is heresay, i didn't look
>  very closely to its sources.)

YES, listen to that man!

And don't forget qcam while we're at it.

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