From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 7 17:53:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23589 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 17:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles91.castles.com [208.214.165.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23520; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 17:52:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09054; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 17:48:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902080148.RAA09054@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav cc: Bill Fenner , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nsouch@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip In-reply-to: Your message of "08 Feb 1999 02:40:39 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 17:48:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'd really, *really* like to rip out the lpt driver, since its > functionality is completely duplicated by the nlpt and lpip drivers, > which seem pretty stable now. Keeping the lpt driver will only result > in slowing down ppbus development. I don't think ppbus + nlpt + plip > is significantly larger than lpt, so size is not an argument. And if > we ever want to rip out lpt, we have to rip it out *now* before 3.1 is > released, or we'll have a hard time doing it before 4.0 goes -STABLE > in a year or two. This was actually meant to happen a while back, and I should be wearing the pointy hat for it. The last stumbling block was lack of linux-mode compatibility in lpip, which was fixed ages ago. I'm not sure we want to do this so late for 3.1, but it should certainly happen in -current and probably shortly following the 3.1 release. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message