Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:55:09 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: cognet@freebsd.org Subject: Re: asr-utils not working with 5.3 release Message-ID: <20050402075508.GC835@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <424DC89C.5090401@samsco.org> References: <922.1112390947@www7.gmx.net> <424DC4B5.4030309@alumni.rice.edu> <424DC723.5090106@samsco.org> <424DC89C.5090401@samsco.org>
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--W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005.04.01 15:18:04 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > Please Please Please someone step forward and re-write the asr > utilities. I don't like adding more band-aids to FreeBSD to cope with > severe design flaws in the software that are fairly easy to fix. Please > get rid of the dmesg scraping that tries to create /dev nodes on the fly > based on how the asr major number was previously displayed during boot. > Please remove the ioctls that make the kernel poke around in Option ROM > memory. Please remove the ioctls that try to retrieve silly system > stats from the kernel. Please fix the silly signal handling that > pervades the low-level API and makes it impossible to port it or > incorporate it in more advanced front-ends. Was it ever determined if there were a legal source version of the old utils? I remember talk about it but never any conclusion? (note I haven't looked closely into it myself, just followed the threads about the topic). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCTk/ch9pcDSc1mlERAlrEAKC+XdbSXIenkRpM1xgQvkkDYH7hZgCeNTge YdN8dhpMBjsqv4lHXjC6QJ0= =zf27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--
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