From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 4 1:15:35 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 54FE937B401; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 01:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7579343E42; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 01:15:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from localhost (localhost.hcs.de [127.0.0.1]) by hcshh.hcs.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F23D015624; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:15:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de (hcswork.hcs.de [172.24.124.5]) by hcshh.hcs.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDA1155F0; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:15:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Postfix, from userid 200) id 62F4F537; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:15:25 +0200 (METDST) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:15:25 +0200 From: Hellmuth Michaelis To: John Baldwin 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> Reply-To: hm@hcs.de References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Virus-Scanned-HCS: by AMaViS perl-11 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 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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message