From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 28 23:22:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17898 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:22:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17841 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:21:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02023; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:44:49 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801290714.RAA02023@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: integrated support for iomega zip via parallel port In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:41:32 CDT." <199801281842.NAA24392@unix.nmarcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:44:49 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Crossposting to -hackers, -current and -stable is always a bad idea. > Are there any plans to put the driver for the iomega zip and parallel port > transfers into the kernel? I'm running stable right now, and it's a bit of a > pain to merge the Linux port into the tree every time i want to do a kernel > build after a cvs update :) Er, what "Linux port" did you have in mind? At this point in time, I don't have any plans to merge the ppbus code. Whilst it's quite separated from everything else and seems to work quite well, it's still not really "finished". However, if there's more interest, I'd be quite happy to do the work. (Jordan, there *will* be a machine I can test this on, won't there? 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\