From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 7 15:57:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06876 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06871 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:57:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id AAA89174; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:56:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Peter Jeremy Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip References: <99Feb8.103441est.40336@border.alcanet.com.au> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Feb 1999 00:56:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: Peter Jeremy's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:44:52 +1100" Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Jeremy writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > On a related note, I was rather surprised, when browsing through the > > ppbus code, to discover that it is based on an older version of the > > parallell port code than what was then (and is still) in -CURRENT. > This is a problem when we have duplicated code. If you do commit > a fix to if_plip.c, could you please commit the equivalent fix to > lpt.c. I'm more likely to move lpt.c to the Attic, assuming TPTB will alow it. There's no use for it now that the ppbus code is in. > > Also, the plip code still causes regular panics. > Probably still PR's i386/5698 and kern/6099 - neither of which seem to > be fixed (or fixable :-(). I'm not so sure about that; it used to freeze the system, now it panics instead. I'll try to catch a dump. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message