From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 7 14:51:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA11040 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 14:51:30 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA11028 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 14:51:19 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA14988; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:51:15 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA18931; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:51:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA09449; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:29:52 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509072129.XAA09449@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: GI1904 hand scanner available on freebsd.cdrom.com To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:29:52 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199509071008.MAA02361@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Sep 7, 95 12:08:21 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 980 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I have put the latest release of the GI1904 hand-scanner driver on > freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/asc.tgz Fine! > I would be grateful if these sources could be included in some of > the source trees, and possibly in the snapshot so that people have > a chance to try it out. [BTW: I don't know what is the policy about > inclusion of new drivers in the -stable and snapshots. My idea is > that this would give people a chance of trying out the code without > too much impact on stability, and is also good for pushing FreeBSD on > the "market"]. 2.1 is defined as "bug fixes only". But i think Jordan was planning to make a 2.2-SNAP RSN, too. Did you (ab)use the "user" slot for cdevsw[], or did you grab the next free entry? Any chance to actually test it? Does anybody have such a device? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)