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Date:      Sun, 07 Feb 1999 19:27:27 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nsouch@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip 
Message-ID:  <199902080327.TAA09567@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 19:18:47 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902071916440.36056-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> 

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> On 8 Feb 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> But doesn't ppbus depend on the SCSI code?  I can imagine something like
> PicoBSD might not want tha that extra bloat.. I know the GENERIC kernel
> already has the SCSI support compiled in...

No.  You only need the SCSI code for vpo (parallel-port Zip drives).

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