Re: old-school tty garbage collection: comcontrol
Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Sep 2025 02:27:55 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > (..) > But it only leaves 'drainwait' in comcontrol(8), and that's not been relevant to modems since the late 90s (the ones that were trouble largely disappeared from service by 2005). I wonder if we might not want to just retire comcontrol entirely. This one feature is the sole-surviving remnant from the 386BSD patchkit driver that Christopher G. Demetriou wrote that FreeBSD 1 imported (and we reimported into FreeBSD 2). > Does anybody still use it? I think not. Isn't camcontrol still used by ada/cd/da/pass devices? -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info