Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:58:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code maintenance Message-ID: <199704021758.KAA13892@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <19970402091209.IH24661@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 2, 97 09:12:09 am
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> No. It never worked excitingly well, but nobody bothered to fix the > problems after the first imports. Also, in the ft(4) case, the > hardware on the market evolved _a lot_ after the initial driver, > making it only working for ancient crap nowadays. > > Terry, get real. Kernel interface changes have been the least part of > the problem, and look into the CVS history, were often the only reason > why someone has touched the source of that unmaintained code at all. > And, one of these kernel interface changes should be well known to > you: the inclusion of DEVFS. :) So if the kernel interfaces have not changed, the code still works, just not excitingly well? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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