Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 20:39:27 +1100 (EST) From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net> To: sos@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patches for nice text modes (170x48x16 etc) (syscons.c) Message-ID: <199611080939.UAA03898@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <199611080739.IAA28325@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@freebsd.org" at Nov 8, 96 08:39:11 am
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> In reply to Julian Assange who wrote: > > OK, I'll just inform that this is not the way it will be done in > the official syscons. I have discussed this with Julian, but he > hasn't the time to change this to the proposed interface (which > isn't in the official sources yet). Your "proposed interface" doesn't work, and never will work without substantial modifications. Despite my [previously stated] objections to it I actually tried very hard implimenting the patch as an lkm using your new sc_user_ioctl() hook as you insisted. It was simply impossible, given the variables used and routines that are called when the screen is (physically) resized. It is beyond me, that you insist that something so fundemental to the opperations of the console as changing the number of rows/cols on the screen should be a module. Even so, I would be accepting of your decision if your interface was actually capable of doing the job. As I recall my final words on the matter were that you should convert my patch to your [moving target] interface. I'd have thought the maintainer of syscons would have been delighted to see a patch that substantially increased functionality. All I have got out of it is negativity, complications and a complete waste of my time. If this is FreeBSD evangelism, God save us. -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | C7F81C2AA32D7D4E4D360A2ED2098E0D | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
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