From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 13:39:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA13664 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 May 1995 13:39:45 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA13649 for ; Tue, 23 May 1995 13:39:40 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id QAA24829; Tue, 23 May 1995 16:39:49 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199505232039.QAA24829@hda.com> Subject: Re: Cyclades Driver/Multi-port Serial Card To: brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger) Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 16:39:48 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Dick@Seaman.Chenequa.WI.US, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Litzinger" at May 23, 95 12:21:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1323 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Litzinger writes: > > I wrote cyb which is not alpha. It is production and in use by ISPs > all over the place. I submitted to FreeBSD several times, but it has > never been integrated into the distribution. I've asked several times > about it and got no response. > > You can get a copy for the driver from: > > ftp://MediaCity.Com/pub/brian/cyb2.0a.tar.gz > Well, that is unfortunate. Speaking for myself: if I don't own the hardware and can't test the driver I'm reluctant to adopt it and commit it, because then I'd have a responsibility toward those customers who came along and began using it, and I couldn't properly support them. The fact that you contributed it yet no one committed it doesn't mean it isn't wanted. It only means no one committed it. We're a pretty loosely coupled outfit without many assigned responsibilities. Maybe you have the time to learn the commit process yourself so that you can add the driver and maintain it. I'm sure that would be appreciated. But it will have to wait until after the code freeze lifts. In the meantime maybe the FAQ can be updated to point to your archive file. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267