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Subject: Re: Old stallion drivers in -stable.
In-Reply-To: <200011070039.eA70dBF29045@mass.osd.bsdi.com> "from Mike Smith at
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From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban)
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Mike Smith writes:
> > Mike Smith writes:
> > > 
> > > I understand that Dima Ruban (copied) was working on this, but I haven't 
> > > heard anything from him recently.
> > 
> > I am, but I got somewhat distracted. But I don't have a _set_ of these cards.
> > All I've got is EC64 PCI, which wasn't initially supported by this driver.
> > So even when I fix the driver to work with a new bus, I can't guarantee that
> > it's gonna work of each and every card it was suposed to support.
> > 
> > > If Dima isn't having any success, and someone was willing to send me a 
> > > representative set of these cards, I would be happy to do the work
> > > (and I think that BSDi would be happy to sponsor it).
> 
> Ok.  In this case, my offer still stands.  If someone wants to get me a 
> set of these cards, I will port and test the driver as soon as I can fit 
> it into my schedule (should be fairly quickly).
> 
> Then I'll drop it on Dima to maintain.  That sounds fair, right? 8) 8) 8)

I don't mind maintaining it.

> -- 
> ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
> rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
> to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
> people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
>            V I C T O R Y   N O T   V E N G E A N C E
> 
> 

-- dima


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