From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 21:58:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15470 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:58:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15465 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA10566 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:58:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA01074 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:58:27 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25182 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:58:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:58:24 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Mike Smith Cc: Andre Albsmeier , John Galbraith , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it? Message-ID: <19990210065824.C10285@internal> References: <19990209223001.A9379@internal> <199902092204.OAA00486@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902092204.OAA00486@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:04:55PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 09-Feb-1999 at 14:04:55 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I would greatly appreciate to see this thing go into the tree. I > > still have to build a measurement system in our lab (you remeber, > > John :-)) and people there are talking about linux already :-(. > > > > Don't shoot me, but I would like to see it in 2.2.x if possible, > > since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible > > for me to use it on production machines. > > What crippiling disability prevents you from adding the driver yourself? Me? Nothing :-) But it just was an idea. If it isn't used, it won't hurt anyone. And my people here won't have to patch 2.2.x manually. They don't need an official release, they already use ctm to update their stuff. -Andre > > -- > \\ 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 > -- Why are people so happy when things _work_ in Linux? With FreeBSD, that's just expected! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message