Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:03:26 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet options on 2.2-GAMMA Message-ID: <199702250633.RAA13163@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199702250628.XAA20730@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Feb 24, 97 11:28:31 pm"
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > > The relevant code in pccardd is actually fairly small, and the card > > database ought to compress well. > > Actually, this is the hard part. The code in pccardd is *NOT* small, > since it has to read all of the darn card TUPLES and such. It's alot of > bloat for (IMHO) little gain. Er, I would say that in its current form (about 600 lines) the CIS reading code is not terribly large compared to sysinstall (16,000 lines). I would love to rewrite the CIS parser. I would love to help Jordan with sysinstall, or any of a dozen other things. But I have to eat, and that really cramps your style 8( > No kidding. This is my biggest failing in the current code, but I've > been spending more time trying to 'shore up the existing code' than in > spending time 'extending'. Alot of this would go away if we could > simply re-write the userland code. Hopefully the Nomads are doing > this. :) Indeed. Arg, stress. 8( > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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