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Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:26:17 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Cc:        mestery@winternet.com, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with my Wincast, fxtv
Message-ID:  <199708170956.TAA04178@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199708170614.XAA01038@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Aug 16, 97 11:14:15 pm"

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Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying:
> 
> Next release of the sound driver will not use isa_dmastatus from isa.c
> rather I will duplicate the functionality in the sound driver.

Am I the only person that thinks that this is unbelievably stupid?

All of a sudden, the sound drivers are the only kernel subsystem that
need PnP support, and now ISA DMA support too?  Please spare a few
seconds thought for the integrity of the system as a whole, rather
than as a vehicle for your pet projects...

> 	Amancio

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