Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:58:55 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip Message-ID: <19990208195855.56187@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> In-Reply-To: <199902080148.RAA09054@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 05:48:22PM -0800 References: <xzp90e9brl4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <199902080148.RAA09054@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 05:48:22PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > >> 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. Yes, I missed this step :( And I should certainly have done this before the last ppbus/nlpt enhancements (http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html). So, let's do it for -current and wait some feedback before a 3.1 update. > >-- >\\ 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 > > > -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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