From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 4 18:55:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28259 for current-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 18:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA28237 for ; Sun, 4 May 1997 18:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA25015; Mon, 5 May 1997 11:24:55 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705050154.LAA25015@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Help with merging in local changes with CVS etc... In-Reply-To: <19970504173956.HN10108@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "May 4, 97 05:39:56 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 11:24:55 +0930 (CST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > The problem with all this is: > > . Nobody stepped forward to maintain it actively. Just committing it > risks to make this a stale piece of software some day. We've got > examples for this in the tree. I have indeed stepped forward. I am waiting on hardware 8) > . There has been more than one objection against the design of the > entire driver (this includes the design of the lp(4) driver as well). I am aware of this, and have plans in hand for said rewrite. Things are a little tough just now with it being impossible to do -current kernel development on a 2.2 system. > All this cries for a rewrite, with the actual hardware driver as a > controller, and the software drivers (lpt(4), ppa(4), lp(4)) on top. > While lp(4) is halfways smart enough to plug in comfortably, and > only steals the lpt(4) functionality while being ifconfig'ed ``up'', > i think ppa(4) is doing even worse, basically requiring you to have > two different kernels or such. (This is heresay, i didn't look > very closely to its sources.) It will be possible for the two to coexist. It is allegedly possible to interleave printing and disk operations; I will have to see about that when the hardware arrives. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[