all good, thank you Eric On Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 2:51 PM Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark Atwood <[email protected]>: > > esr: kill it > > It's gone. And we are indeed at 59% removals now. > > Note that I junked two other drivers recently - Conrad PCF and Spectracom > TSYNC PCI. I didn't query you about them because that was within written > policy and I really should have caught them during the big sweep last year. > > What I missed was driver dependencies. The TSYNC PCI is *nasty* from > a security standpoint; it requires a proprietary in-kernel driver. Policy > from before you were running things is that's a crash landing and I didn't > even form the thought that you might want to change that. > > The Conrad PCF needs a third-party kernel driver that's open-source, > but no longer exists for Linux - it's somebody's dorm-room hack that fell > off the net. It might (might) atill exist in some BSDs. But the hardware > also requires a *parallel port*. Been a lot of years since I've heard > of one of those being in use anywhere, and they sure ain't going to be in > modern data centers. *PLONK* > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> >
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