Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 17:48:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nsouch@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip Message-ID: <199902080148.RAA09054@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Feb 1999 02:40:39 %2B0100." <xzp90e9brl4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> I'd really, *really* like to rip out the lpt driver, since its > functionality is completely duplicated by the nlpt and lpip drivers, > which seem pretty stable now. Keeping the lpt driver will only result > in slowing down ppbus development. I don't think ppbus + nlpt + plip > is significantly larger than lpt, so size is not an argument. And if > we ever want to rip out lpt, we have to rip it out *now* before 3.1 is > released, or we'll have a hard time doing it before 4.0 goes -STABLE > in a year or two. This was actually meant to happen a while back, and I should be wearing the pointy hat for it. The last stumbling block was lack of linux-mode compatibility in lpip, which was fixed ages ago. I'm not sure we want to do this so late for 3.1, but it should certainly happen in -current and probably shortly following the 3.1 release. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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