Re: Reminder: non-mpsafetty drivers to be *dis*connected on Sunday
- From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 23:24:33 -0700
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Ed Schouten <ed@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Peter,
* Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-Aug-01 12:53:18 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I got a syntax error on this email Peter, didn't you mean to write:
"Great work Ed, let me send you some patches"
I would love to be able to send some patches. In order to do so, I
need some information about how to interface with the MPSAFE TTY
subsystem and how to adapt an existing driver. I am not the only
person to have indicated a need for some hand-holding and I was under
the impression that Ed would provide this but, to date, all I have is
suggestions to look at patched drivers.
I guess things went wrong, because I probably confused you with Peter
Wemm (I know - I'm bad with names), who inquired about si(4). I did send
him a message some time ago, to see if we could make an appointment to
discuss how we could get si(4) working.
Even though I agree with you that we need more documentation on the TTY
layer's internals, my opinion is that other people should have shown
more interest from the start. When I sent a message a couple of weeks
ago, I almost immediately got a response from Alexander Kabaev (kan@).
He wanted to help me with the dcons(4) driver, which he did. I just
said: take a look at what I did to uart(4) and the console drivers and
gave him some random advice. He was able to send me an almost flawless
diff in a matter of hours, which he committed to the mpsafetty branch
himself!
Maybe I'm replying to too many messages at the same time, but as John
said, it's a lot easier making the remaining drivers work after the code
has been integrated. It's not like we're permanently carving things into
stone - we've almost got a full year to get it all working again.
I'll be happy to work on si(4) once the code hits the tree. Don't let
si(4) get in the way. I have actual hardware (and use it 24x7), so
I've got some incentive.
--
Peter Wemm - peter@xxxxxxxx; peter@xxxxxxxxxxx; peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; KI6FJV
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themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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