From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 22 7:50:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6647E14E0B for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 07:50:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 20396 invoked by uid 1001); 22 May 1999 14:50:20 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990522094253.A20449@Denninger.Net> Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 10:50:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Face: *0^4Iw) To: Karl Denninger Subject: Re: Suggestion... Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-May-99 Karl Denninger wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 02:33:51PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >> > One other suggestion, while I'm at it. >> > >> > The "dgb" driver has been marked "alpha quality" for a LONG time. >> > >> > I've had a fax server running on a PC/Xe 8 port card (64k shared RAM) >> > for well over a year on one of these cards - and have NEVER had a single >> > problem with it. That server gets a LOT of extremely heavy use, and >> > if there were driver problems I would have found them by now. >> > >> > I'd suggest that someone drop the "alpha" byline on that one - its >> > definitely stable :-) >> >> I plan on doing some work on it and the dgm driver. They're almost >> the same and should be merged. They both violate style(9) in almost >> every way too :-[ >> >> I know of only one person with an Xem card (dgm driver), but he's >> promised to send me the specs by snail mail. Once I get them, I'll >> start the work. >> >> Let's leave the `alpha' there for a little longer :-) > > What are you planning on doing with it? Other than DDB support I can't > imagine what could be *added* to the driver; it is one of those "just > works" things right now. Why not merge the two into a *new* driver? Once it's running at an acceptable level, drop support for the two old drivers. That way if something breaks, the current users still have the one that works. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message