Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 00:12:25 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bluetooth Message-ID: <20021109.001225.94555950.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <038501c286b2$5efb1890$52557f42@errno.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211071328530.5860-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <038501c286b2$5efb1890$52557f42@errno.com>
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"Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> writes:
: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Sam Leffler wrote:
: > > A bluetooth implementation that was not
: > > tied to netgraph would be preferrable as freebsd users would get the
: > > benefits of additional (non-freebsd users) working with the code.
: > >
: >
: > NetBSD have their own bluetooth code that goes in /sys/dev/bluetooth.
: > You are free to port that when (if) it's ready, in fact
: > we are using netgraph/bluetooth specifically to not collide with that.
: >
: > <...netgraph PR deleted...>
: >
:
: I don't want to see multiple instances of Bluetooth support in the system.
: As you noted there's a netbsd implementation already. Having multiple
: incompatible implementations of the same protocol stack is silly. If this
: one is better than the netbsd one then great, but I want to see answers to
: these questions.
I'd go one step farther. I'd say that it would be insane to have more
than one bluetooth stack for FreeBSD. I'd go farther and say that it
would be insane to have more than one bluetooth stack for *BSD.
Bluetooth is too big and specailized for there to be much benefit in
competing stacks.
I mean look how far the multiple ATM stacks got us. It was a dump
idea to have more than one in the system, and now both aren't very
supported. People had to beg and plead to get the drivers updated,
and only one of the two stacks survived (if I read my commit mail
correctly).
And look at OLDCARD and NEWCARD. When both were being worked on, both
suffered. OLDCARD got all the bug fixes and new features for a while
when we'd be more ahead today if I'd ported NEWCARD to -stable and
pc98 instead. Having two implementations there was more of a
liability than an asset I sometimes think.
Warner
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