From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 22:08:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16387 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:06:22 -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 WAA16378 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:06:16 -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 HAA12096 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:06:12 +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 HAA02576 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:06:13 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25288 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:06:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:06:11 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: John Galbraith Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Andre Albsmeier , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it? Message-ID: <19990210070611.D10285@internal> References: <39213.918603643@zippy.cdrom.com> <199902100000.RAA05556@magpie.ece.arizona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902100000.RAA05556@magpie.ece.arizona.edu>; from John Galbraith on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 05:00:15PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 09-Feb-1999 at 17:00:15 -0700, John Galbraith wrote: > > I meant "who's stopping you from committing the driver", not "who's > > stopping you from committing the driver to 2.2". I too think 2.2 > > should be left to die in peace. > > Well, before it is committed I would like to see one of you FreeBSD > wizards to check it over for a half hour first. My experience with > FreeBSD is one of rock-solid performance. I would hate to upset that > impression for somebody else with this particular chunk of code. I > wrote this driver to the best of my abilities, and I think it is good, > but I don't spend every weekend with the FreeBSD source code like some > of you guys do. > > I can say with 100% certainty that my driver works much faster, more > reliably, and with more features than the current gp driver > distributed with FreeBSD for _me_. This will probably be true for > most other people as well. However, that doesn't mean that this code > is the end all and shouldn't be committed without being checked over > by one of you FreeBSD-god types. Maybe this is just my own anxiety > over my FreeBSD-contributer virgin status, but it seems wise. Ok, I see, I won't have luck with my wish for 2.2.x :-) However, if there are enhancements or changes being made in order to bring it into the 3.x or 4.x tree, please make a short note if these changes are incompatible with 2.2.x. As I said before, I still can't use 3.x on a lot of machines here so I have to stick with 2.2.x for a while. (I have problems using runsocks from the socks5 package, but yet haven't figured out if it's my fault). Thanks a lot, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message