From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 11:13:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18642 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:13:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18633 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:13:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07973; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:13:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd007943; Tue Feb 24 12:13:03 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09695; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:12:59 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802241912.MAA09695@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:12:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, mike@smith.net.au, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802241027.CAA23278@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Feb 24, 98 02:27:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > We forgot to mention that whomever embarks on a high level abstraction > > > for dealing with multimedia devices including scanners has to also > > > content with writing and supporting the underlying hardware which in > > > many instances has not been standardized or hardware vendors are > > > very lax . Do a net search on the linux scsi scanner project SANE and > > ... > > > > in other words: not worth the effort ? > > It is worth the effort if we have a small team ready to tackle the > project other than that is a pie in the sky idea. This small team would have to be: A) Highly comptetent so they can write the code B) Not so competent that they buy good hardware 8-|. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message