Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:27:02 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su> Cc: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>, patl@phoenix.volant.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? Message-ID: <1516.893359622@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:06:30 %2B0400." <Pine.GSO.3.95.980423230041.297B-100000@sunny.bog.msu.su>
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> Your yesterday's cause resulted in that hardware that perfectly > worked for me is now unsupported in base system in favor of some not > existent port solution. I fail to see any value in this. Not to continue the bloat-vs-anti-bloat debate here (which has been done so often and for so long that we even now divide ourselves into "Bloatist" and "Anti-Bloatist" parties, just like Republicans and Democrats here in the U.S.) but just to note that with the quickcam in particular, what you're seeing isn't so much the permanant retirement of that driver so much as a temporary and unfortunate lull in support for it. 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 so far as to purchase him one of each for testing (I see them sitting on his shelf each time I walk into his office :) and now it's just down to you QC users browbeating Mike into coughing up the promised new support. :-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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