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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:15:25 +0200
From:      Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hcs.de>
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:  <20021004081525.GA14066@hcswork.hcs.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, 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.

To repeat an offer made to a recent announce of phk to axe these
drivers, i have at least two working drives/controllers/docs for the
mcd(4) driver which i am willing to ship to anyone who wants to
maintain this driver in -current to prevent it from being axed out.

One guy said that he'd like to maintain the driver, and i pointed him
to phk.

hellmuth
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