Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 11:24:55 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with merging in local changes with CVS etc... Message-ID: <199705050154.LAA25015@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19970504173956.HN10108@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "May 4, 97 05:39:56 pm"
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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 [[
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