Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:07:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-ten Message-ID: <199812301907.MAA00595@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:23:23 EST." <199812301623.LAA26381@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <199812301623.LAA26381@whizzo.transsys.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812300218090.63365-100000@hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com>
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In message <199812301623.LAA26381@whizzo.transsys.com> "Louis A. Mamakos" writes: : I don't know what the installed base of users for the TW-523 driver in : FreeBSD, but it seems rather doubtful that many new instances of these : are popping up. There are a newer generation of X-10 powerline computer : interfaces that plug into a serial ports, and this seems to be the more : popular alternative these days. While it is an alternative these days, it is still a more costly alternative. When I was looking at X-10 hardware this past fall, I noticed that the TW-523 interface ran approx $30-$40 assembled, while the serial versions ran more like $80 (kit) or $120 (assembled). There is nothing wrong with the TW-523 interface, and given its cost advantage, I suspect it will be around for a long time to come. I've sent mail to phk privately, but will say here publicly that if the current xten maintainer were to go missing, I'd gladly step into the breach. Until such time as we have a good build environment for loadable drivers, a good devfs implementation that is default and some way to have ports for kernel hunks, I think it premature to remove a working, used and maintained driver from the tree. While source tree cleanup is a luadable goal, there needs to be more infrastructure in place before drivers are cut loose. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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