From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 3 14: 1: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5A237B404 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2EF43E65 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 14102 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2002 21:01:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 3 Oct 2002 21:01:06 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g93L13Bv018341; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:01:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:01:07 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers? These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes being made to the kernel API's used by device drivers in -current. Unless we can find some people who actually use these devices and can test patches for these drivers we will have to drop support for them. So, is anyone out there still using this old hardware? Note that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices forever. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message