From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 22:37:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00479 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:37:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00471 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:37:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA13163; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:03:27 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702250633.RAA13163@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Ethernet options on 2.2-GAMMA In-Reply-To: <199702250628.XAA20730@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Feb 24, 97 11:28:31 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:03:26 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[