From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 10:15:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13851 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:15:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA13841 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:15:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA13892 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:58:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704021758.KAA13892@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Code maintenance To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:58:50 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <19970402091209.IH24661@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 2, 97 09:12:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > No. It never worked excitingly well, but nobody bothered to fix the > problems after the first imports. Also, in the ft(4) case, the > hardware on the market evolved _a lot_ after the initial driver, > making it only working for ancient crap nowadays. > > Terry, get real. Kernel interface changes have been the least part of > the problem, and look into the CVS history, were often the only reason > why someone has touched the source of that unmaintained code at all. > And, one of these kernel interface changes should be well known to > you: the inclusion of DEVFS. :) So if the kernel interfaces have not changed, the code still works, just not excitingly well? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.