Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:11:00 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, mestery@winternet.com, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with my Wincast, fxtv Message-ID: <199708172341.JAA08025@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199708172133.OAA00938@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Aug 17, 97 02:33:48 pm"
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Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > Well, it has been over a year since Sujal Patel put out his PnP patches > which we can use for the sound driver as well as other devices. In this > case no one has taken the incentive to push the technology. Few This is because Sujal was "just going to finish his exams", and most of us have been off paying the rent. (standard excuse) 8) > As for ISA DMA support, the sound drivers from day one have used the isa dma > subsystem. In order to support linux applications such as xquake > and for improved sound support we were forced to add isa_dmastatus > which Luigi was kind to provide. The contributed code naturally > didn't break the sound driver functionality however the version > that made into current did. The version that made it into current _was_ the version Luigi and I discussed at notinconsiderable length. I never got any impression that anything was wrong with it, until I read your (totally unreasoned and unjustified) demand that part of the (originally proposed and unchanged) function should be removed. >From my reading, that fragment of code imposed some basic, harmless, sanity checking on the use of the function. Luigi wouldn't have put it there if he didn't feel that it belonged there. You and he have been working together, supposedly. I have heard nothing from him on this subject, but in the meantime you've gathered up your skirts and flounced off. > At the very least someone should > have consulted someone in the multimedia group to see if this > was okay to change . Huh? Change _what_? > As part of the guspnp sound driver release , the linux emulation > has been modified to support the sound driver 3.5 ioctl. I can't > check that version in because the changes are specific to support > the sound driver 3.5 ioctl interface which is not present in FreeBSD.XXXX > sound driver release. This is an issue with finding someone with an adequately stable personality to maintain the sound drivers in -current and -stable. I would love to have your work integrated, believe me; I get no satisfaction whatsoever from seeing code just lying to rot. -- ]] 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 [[
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