From owner-cvs-all Wed Feb 18 13:45:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22400 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA22358 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:45:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id VAA03799; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:19:12 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199802182019.VAA03799@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: src/sys/i386/include qcam.h src/sys/i386/isa qcam.c qcamde To: Studded@san.rr.com (Studded) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:19:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <34EB4ECF.3A671845@san.rr.com> from "Studded" at Feb 18, 98 01:12:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > obviously there is no reason to remove a driver, even if only partly > > functional, unless there is a better alternative. > > I can think of a real good reason to remove it from the base system, > namely that *most* FreeBSD users have no need for this. I'd like to cast > my vote along with the person who suggested earlier to make everything > related to qcam a port. I know that I'll be making some changes to my > make files to avoid building this stuff in my make world, so thanks for > bringing this up. :) with this reasoning you are going to nuke 80% of supported peripherals from the base system, not to mention the ton of "useless" programs in /usr/bin . the "overhead" for device drivers is usually just the source code (20..100K) and if you are lucky a single control program like qcamcontrol... hardly 20 seconds of compile time overall. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message