From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 31 02:53:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA16401 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA16386 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA19870; Sat, 31 May 1997 11:51:08 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11399; Sat, 31 May 1997 11:50:24 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970531115024.CE15818@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 11:50:24 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: rssh@cki.ipri.kiev.ua Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inteface for external drivers. (ppa3) References: <338F0AB2.3DD6@cki.ipri.kiev.ua> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <338F0AB2.3DD6@cki.ipri.kiev.ua>; from Ruslan Shevchenko on May 30, 1997 20:13:21 +0300 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > Just Install ppa3.c --- work well, but why I must patch userconfig.c ? Because the current implementation of UserConfig is far from being perfect. As has been discussed before, the design of the various subdrivers for the parallel port needs an overhaul. ISTR that Michael Smith volunteered for this (but required to get a ZIP drive first). Incidentally, Mike is also confident with the UserConfig code. ;-) -- 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. ;-)