Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:51:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>, patl@phoenix.volant.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? Message-ID: <199804231951.MAA00986@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:37:07 %2B0400." <Pine.GSO.3.95.980423233221.297D-100000@sunny.bog.msu.su>
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> > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Mike Smith, the executioner of the old driver, was supposed to come up > > with something new which supported both mono and color QCs as a > > pre-condition for being allowed to kill the old driver, but 2.2.6 sort > > of happened in the middle of that and he got yanked into other > > pursuits which delayed the fulfillment of those terms. We have gone > > This is exatly my point. I guess i somehow missed xtend port > announcement. Surely person arguing for unbundling it had done a port. Actually, the ports have been present for years. The justification for the Qcam code removal was stated in the commit messages, as well as being painfully reiterated many times in the following discussions. What remains outstanding is support for the VC Quickcams, which were never supported by the kernel code. This was being undertaken by a volunteer who seems to have been slain by whatever predator it is that consumes new volunteers. -- \\ 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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