> With all my respect to the hard work put into this, I want to express my
> concerns:
How did I know this was coming? ;)
>
> Why is there a need to develop a half-done fdc, if there is a full, working,
> tested by millions driver available even in old DDKs, which we can use
> without violating its license?
> Why waste time writing that driver from scratch now when we could just import
> DDK's one and spend time fixing our PnP manager instead, and other involved
> components so that DDK's driver actually works?
As far as I know, the only floppy related DDK driver is sfloppy.sys. If that is
wrong, I would be happy to import a better fdc.sys and scrap this one.
> Again, with all my respect to Cameron, he does a great job, but when he
> disappears next time for a year or two, who is going to finish FDC? Or any
> other of his half-finished branches? (each being really a pearl if it's done).
aicom-hardware-fun can be deleted because somebody is finally working on usb.
tcp-rewrite-branch was merged to the GSoC project. The only incomplete branch
is aicom-network-branch which has Alex's new Winsock code in it (which only a
few bugs prevent from being fully functional).
> I would really suggest using all available resources first and only then
> spend time developing our own stuff instead of already existing.
I did this thing in one (long) night because I was bored. It's not like I spent
a month doing it. I know people say "Who cares about floppy support?" and I
agree but it has to be done at some point to be compatible with XP/Vista/7.
>
> Thanks for understanding,
> Aleksey.
Regards,
Cameron
_______________________________________________
Ros-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
