Re: old-school tty garbage collection: comcontrol
Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Sep 2025 03:06:29 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2025, 6:28 PM Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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? > > For c*A*mcontrol is yes. But I'm talking about c*O*mcontrol... I had totally forgotten about it since I think I last used it in the 90s... and even then it was for a custom serial device the hw engineer fixed to not need it. My bad sorry 0300AM here time to get some sleep :-P -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info