From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 17 06:35:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA27526 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 06:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA27506; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 06:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id XAA06011; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:05:19 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708171335.XAA06011@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Parallel port developpements - ppbus In-Reply-To: <199708171303.XAA17339@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Aug 17, 97 11:03:13 pm" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:05:18 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, phk@critter.dk.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr 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-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > >>[plip driver] > > >I don't think so. It certainly doesn't belong in the "internet" networking > >code. The tradition with interface drivers seems to be to park them at > >the level of the device they drive, ie. ISA network hardware drivers > >are in the ISA bus-specific directory, so it would make the most sense > >to me to put it in dev/ppbus/if_lp.c > > It makes no sense to put it there either, since sys/dev is for > bus-independent (parts of) drivers. Well, then I'd better move the ppbus stuff. It makes no sense to me to have Yet Another toplevel directory for this though, and sys/dev strikes me as being the ideal place for architecture-independent device drivers. Any consensus on this? -- ]] 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 [[