Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:54:18 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: wanton Atticizing is bad Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812271137490.4682-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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In the cleanups today, things were broken and irreplacable things deleted. For instance, why was softmodem support deleted, ft support, and the if_eg 3c505 driver? If there's no replacement, unless it's an old SCSI driver, why should it be deleted? Pcvt was deleted, but I'm willing to bet some people use it, even though the syscons driver is going to be rewritten soon. When wcd was removed, atapi.c broke, so the old WCD cruft should be removed and the line #include "wcd.h" should as well. This is a good replacement though, as I've had nothing but good experience with acd on my ATAPI CD-ROM drives, and wcd is deprecated. However, sound is not deprecated. Luigi's snd requires the header ulaw.h from the old VoxWare driver, but this can be easily moved over. The more important things are: lack of probing printf, that all other hardware drivers have, however the sndstat support which has the correct kernel printfs is already implemented in sound.c:1309 (i.e. "pcm0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1:6") certain drivers with no replacement in VoxWare: MIDI and FM are both unimplemented. I cannot now use OPL/3 like I could before, nor the MIDI port So for at least the VoxWare drivers, please reverse the removal. They are NOT deprecated. As for the others, were there good reasons to remove them? Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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