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). -- \\ 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
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