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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:15:20 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Current status of the olicom fracas. 
Message-ID:  <17431.919624520@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:47:07 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211336080.9637-100000@heathers.stdio.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211336080.9637-100000@heathers.stdio.com>, Larry 

>So are my suggestions for making my driver and Olicom's objects more
>palatble to the source tree not acceptable?  What are the points of
>contention?  I would like to know so that I can see what else I could
>do to fix this.

They are not acceptable to me.  An object file just simply doesn't
count as "source" in my book.

>I do think it is important to make the distinction between my driver
>"if_oltr.c" and Olicom's "trlld.o".  There is nothing about my driver, or
>Olicom's header file "trlld.h", that violate the spirit of the source
>tree.  I think that the driver and header are fine where they live in
>dev/oltr as it is a combined ISA/PCI driver.

Sure, it's only that one file I have a problem with, and only because
we do not have the source.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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