Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:20:56 +0930 From: Phil Kernick <Phil@Kernick.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? Message-ID: <3D9CD7E0.4000503@Kernick.org> References: <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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I tried using the matcd(4) driver nearly a year ago and was having problems
with it. I tried contacting the author to remove some of the unreasonable
licensing restrictions he'd put on the driver and see if he could help me, but
I never got a response.
I think that it should be orphaned in 4.x and dropped in 5.0.
Phil.
John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.
>
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