From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 00:53:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA20052 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:53:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA20038 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA24256 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:51:05 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA28301 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:51:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA15962 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:40:37 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603070840.JAA15962@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Should we get ATAPI from NetBSD? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:40:37 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Mar 6, 96 05:32:37 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Hamby wrote: > Whatever happened to the idea of taking NetBSD's ATAPI CD-ROM driver code > instead of the alpha-quality driver that we have now? I'm all for this > idea, does any core team member want to take it upon themselves to import > the driver code? I'm neutral to this point, i simply don't have ATAPI, nor would i ever let one pass into my door. However: please, DON'T confuse the core team with a code-hacking machine. We are there for ``political'' tasks (release coordination, strategical decisions), and incidentally are also committers by the same time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)