From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 25 21:48:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23202 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:48:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23192 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:48:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22556; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:45:53 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802260545.VAA22556@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Terry Lambert , doconnor@gsoft.com.au, dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qcam in kernel - build died In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:33:55 PST." <22717.888471235@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:45:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Ugh. Please don't kill the NFS ccode[1] until after I've had a chance > > to hack on it in a nice clean framework so that it can actually be made > > (1) to work, and (2) to be understandable to mortals who don't have the > > inclination to understand why there are all these wierd upcalls all over > > the place [2]. > > You want the NFS code? It's yours! That poor code has lacked a > maintainer/mentor/father/... ever since Doug Rabson was scooped up by > an alien spaceship with suspiciously familiar markings and forced to > work on NT. Are we willing to wear Terry's architectural reforms? FWIW, I have one (minor) one here ready to be committed. He appears to have worked out the sort of crouton-sized bits that us mortals can deal with. (yay!) > And unlike the situation with the quickcam, the Linux folks have > already proven that putting NFS into user space is *not* a good idea > (at least not for production work) and you are safe from competition > on that quarter. :-) No fear. Can we fund a small NetApp box for him to compete with? Gotta give the guy some incentive. 8) -- \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message