On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers? > These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers > most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes > being made to the kernel API's used by device drivers in -current. > Unless we can find some people who actually use these devices and > can test patches for these drivers we will have to drop support for > them. So, is anyone out there still using this old hardware? Note > that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't > be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices > forever.
To repeat an offer made to a recent announce of phk to axe these drivers, i have at least two working drives/controllers/docs for the mcd(4) driver which i am willing to ship to anyone who wants to maintain this driver in -current to prevent it from being axed out. One guy said that he'd like to maintain the driver, and i pointed him to phk. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
