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"
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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 [[
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