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To: Curt Mayer <curt@emergent.com>
cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: NETBSD ccd driver 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Dec 95 09:55:47 PST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:20:27 -0800
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>has anyone ported this puppy yet? I've started a port, but it occurred to 

   Not that I'm aware of, although people have talked about it.

>me that maybe i'm reinventing the wheel. also, porting from netbsd to
>freebsd sometimes feels like 'dumbing down', specifically the config
>interface, and the disk data structure stuff. we are closer to 4.4, and
>that is good, and the netbsd folks seem to be charging off into uncharted
>but possibly nicer territory. philosophical difference?

   I don't think this is due to a philosophical difference. It's more a matter
of priorities, and improving the config/disk data/stats interface(s) hasn't
until recently been a priority. With DEVFS coming online in the near future,
work in the sysctl interface, future plans on improving LKMs, new filesystems
work, etc, I think this is now becoming a priority and you can expect these
parts of the kernel to change dramtically over the next few months.
   I'd like to see a port of the ccd driver and I hope that you or someone
else takes charge of it.

-DG