Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:19:12 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: Studded@san.rr.com (Studded) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/sys/i386/include qcam.h src/sys/i386/isa qcam.c qcamde Message-ID: <199802182019.VAA03799@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <34EB4ECF.3A671845@san.rr.com> from "Studded" at Feb 18, 98 01:12:28 pm
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> > obviously there is no reason to remove a driver, even if only partly > > functional, unless there is a better alternative. > > I can think of a real good reason to remove it from the base system, > namely that *most* FreeBSD users have no need for this. I'd like to cast > my vote along with the person who suggested earlier to make everything > related to qcam a port. I know that I'll be making some changes to my > make files to avoid building this stuff in my make world, so thanks for > bringing this up. :) with this reasoning you are going to nuke 80% of supported peripherals from the base system, not to mention the ton of "useless" programs in /usr/bin . the "overhead" for device drivers is usually just the source code (20..100K) and if you are lucky a single control program like qcamcontrol... hardly 20 seconds of compile time overall. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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