Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:45:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qcam in kernel - build died Message-ID: <199802260545.VAA22556@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:33:55 PST." <22717.888471235@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Ugh. Please don't kill the NFS ccode[1] until after I've had a chance > > to hack on it in a nice clean framework so that it can actually be made > > (1) to work, and (2) to be understandable to mortals who don't have the > > inclination to understand why there are all these wierd upcalls all over > > the place [2]. > > You want the NFS code? It's yours! That poor code has lacked a > maintainer/mentor/father/... ever since Doug Rabson was scooped up by > an alien spaceship with suspiciously familiar markings and forced to > work on NT. Are we willing to wear Terry's architectural reforms? FWIW, I have one (minor) one here ready to be committed. He appears to have worked out the sort of crouton-sized bits that us mortals can deal with. (yay!) > And unlike the situation with the quickcam, the Linux folks have > already proven that putting NFS into user space is *not* a good idea > (at least not for production work) and you are safe from competition > on that quarter. :-) No fear. Can we fund a small NetApp box for him to compete with? Gotta give the guy some incentive. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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