Date: 12 Feb 1999 01:54:16 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip Message-ID: <xzpiud8igqv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Souchu's message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:50:37 %2B0100" References: <xzp90e9brl4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <199902080148.RAA09054@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990208195855.56187@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <xzpsocg63t5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990208222829.53422@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <xzpk8xs5zfm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990211225037.40571@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr>
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Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> writes: > On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 10:59:57PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Don't worry, I've patched GENERIC, LINT, files.i386 and the PicoBSD > > kernels, and removed lpt.c and lpt.4. I'll still have to track down > > references to the driver in the documentation though. > lpt.4 also? nlpt.4 refers to it. I'll have to complete nlpt.4. Hmm, there's no nlpt.4 on my system - I probably need to make world. > Shouldn't we have moved nlpt to lpt to keep the ages dated tags? I don't know. We can't repo copy nlpt.c to lpt.c because that will kill the old lpt.c, but that's not a big problem; we can rename nlpt to lpt in src/sys/conf/files and the users won't know the difference. The man page is a problem, though; it needs to have the same name as the device; but it's young enough that there's not much history to lose. > So, you choosed 'net'. But it won't work better than 'tty' if ppp is not > statically configured. And for a basic configuration, printer may not work > with interrupts :( > [...] My knowledge of the FreeBSD interrupt system is absolutely nil, so don't ask me for an opinion :) (BTW, I wouldn't mind if one of you superhero programmers wrote a short introduction to interrupt masks "for the rest of us") DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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