From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 22 08:22:04 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA08299 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:22:04 -0800 Received: from LOCALHOST (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA08292; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:22:01 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host LOCALHOST didn't use HELO protocol To: Jim Bryant cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ANy one useing ft driver under 2.0 current??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 95 02:17:07 CST." <199503220817.CAA07565@news.iadfw.net> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 08:22:01 -0800 Message-ID: <8291.795889321@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I really think that the QIC support is needed, and as a matter of fact, I > have thousands of lines of source to add full QIC compat via an user > program for interchange purposes, I think that symlink support will be This still goes in a direction I'd rather not see any more effort put. /dev/ft0 should be a kernel driver, large and dynamically loaded if necessary (we are moving in that direction, after all), but offering the same kind of device interface as is offered by the other tape drivers. The floppy tape stuff has always been a lone wolf, and a perennial irritation to those who'd like a consistent doc picture. We've always known how useful it is to its adherants too, but as Rod's panic example shows, support for it in -current has also been spotty at best. All told, it's one of those parts of our system that I'd quality as a "trouble spot" - something that needs to be ripped out screaming by the roots and essentially reimplemented (or at least rengineered). It does appear as if this work is now underway (the device driver conversion) and I support the work in that direction. I'd hate to see the current system limp along much longer - it'd be far more merciful to shoot it. Jordan