Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:10:12 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r304187 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/mcd sys/modules sys/modules/mcd Message-ID: <c5c4fc77-1d3e-0943-7b1b-808166931b7a@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx> References: <201608152038.u7FKc2NL026330@repo.freebsd.org> <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --xjwi2KCDAbSGiIuWpMMrA29e9ssG53fJh Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="TovMIslaq2J9Qv5MAorjAKVuCHj1PlIsS" From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Message-ID: <c5c4fc77-1d3e-0943-7b1b-808166931b7a@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r304187 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/mcd sys/modules sys/modules/mcd References: <201608152038.u7FKc2NL026330@repo.freebsd.org> <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <2065331.KaGOSftJhd@ralph.baldwin.cx> --TovMIslaq2J9Qv5MAorjAKVuCHj1PlIsS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/15/2016 16:54, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2016 08:38:02 PM John Baldwin wrote: >> Author: jhb >> Date: Mon Aug 15 20:38:02 2016 >> New Revision: 304187 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/304187 >> >> Log: >> Remove the mcd(4) driver for Mitsumi CD-ROM players. >> =20 >> This is a driver for a pre-ATAPI ISA CD-ROM adapter. As noted in >> the manpage, this driver is only useful as a backend to cdcontrol to= >> play audio CDs since it doesn't use DMA, so its data performance is >> "abysmal" (and that was true in the mid 90's). >=20 > No one stepped up to test patches for it either when I last posted patc= hes to > convert it from timeout(9) to callout(9). I have a few more drivers th= at are > both very old and that people have no business using in 12 (think ISA > adapters that don't do DMA and can't be used with pccard) that I will b= e > removing over the next little while. I brought up a list of drivers on= arch@ > a couple of years ago and the conversation drifted off into the weeds a= bout > trimming GENERIC, etc. No one objected to the specific drivers I liste= d > though (and I got a few pleas of "please remove"). If someone shows up= > desperately clutching an ISA adapter they can always dig up the source = from > svn and deal with forward porting it for whatever API changes have happ= ened > since it was removed. I have one of these Mitsumi CD-ROM drives somewhere in my basement but I haven't used it for many years. I think I only used it with "PAO", thoug= h. http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/index.html Maybe we should kill APM, too! ;-) Jung-uk Kim --TovMIslaq2J9Qv5MAorjAKVuCHj1PlIsS-- --xjwi2KCDAbSGiIuWpMMrA29e9ssG53fJh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXsi+0AAoJEHyflib82/FGEpgH/2hKMen6wtd1S8KiJXHq6n7e N503KLULuG6ZR8+nYMh5WapeSGKiET9Vg9VQ3nMFOsBcliw9N+Z4S9Yx2qb07760 rP6q/aKjExSULFH7+WHZfyGbwQiwl8a11P6ECV0NWG3cGp61SLs/0pSB0hN4pI8J SHW7WOYsHPkIC9zfRW90P6h1sxffUeSe5/jkuFzEbIow17HkYoDuxZT3rZ0BmJ+D oE5Yz9y3FsuOsGMhWgw/zfqcJNYe35DTuOVXVvULE9hPLfnhH7OBkwV5xjEQk9+w eV9M+BPk4V+A8KPcnPU5XGjddcBiC1DIxGCYSbLfo8fapP7oOYlEaX0d0VrA50Q= =gFZq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xjwi2KCDAbSGiIuWpMMrA29e9ssG53fJh--
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