From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 3 17: 9: 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 A647137B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rotfl.com.au (eth1779.sa.adsl.internode.on.net [150.101.235.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3FF43E7B; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Phil@Kernick.org) Received: by mail.rotfl.com.au (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g93NoulX077249 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:20:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from Phil@Kernick.org) Message-ID: <3D9CD7E0.4000503@Kernick.org> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:20:56 +0930 From: Phil Kernick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? References: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. > -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: Phil@Kernick.org / \ ROTFL Enterprises Mobile: 041 61 ROTFL \_.-*_/ v Humourist, satirist, and probably a few more 'ists to boot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message