Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:15:25 +0200 From: Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hcs.de> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? Message-ID: <20021004081525.GA14066@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20021003170107.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers? > These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers > most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes > being made to the kernel API's used by device drivers in -current. > Unless we can find some people who actually use these devices and > can test patches for these drivers we will have to drop support for > them. So, is anyone out there still using this old hardware? Note > that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't > be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices > forever. To repeat an offer made to a recent announce of phk to axe these drivers, i have at least two working drives/controllers/docs for the mcd(4) driver which i am willing to ship to anyone who wants to maintain this driver in -current to prevent it from being axed out. One guy said that he'd like to maintain the driver, and i pointed him to phk. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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