Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:05:18 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, phk@critter.dk.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr
Subject:   Re: Parallel port developpements - ppbus
Message-ID:  <199708171335.XAA06011@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199708171303.XAA17339@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Aug 17, 97 11:03:13 pm"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bruce Evans stands accused of saying:
> >>[plip driver]
> 
> >I don't think so.  It certainly doesn't belong in the "internet" networking
> >code.  The tradition with interface drivers seems to be to park them at
> >the level of the device they drive, ie. ISA network hardware drivers
> >are in the ISA bus-specific directory, so it would make the most sense
> >to me to put it in dev/ppbus/if_lp.c
> 
> It makes no sense to put it there either, since sys/dev is for
> bus-independent (parts of) drivers.

Well, then I'd better move the ppbus stuff.  It makes no sense to me
to have Yet Another toplevel directory for this though, and sys/dev
strikes me as being the ideal place for architecture-independent
device drivers.

Any consensus on this?

-- 
]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer        msmith@gsoft.com.au             [[
]] Genesis Software                     genesis@gsoft.com.au            [[
]] High-speed data acquisition and      (GSM mobile)     0411-222-496   [[
]] realtime instrument control.         (ph)          +61-8-8267-3493   [[
]] Unix hardware collector.             "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick  [[



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199708171335.XAA06011>