Re: old-school tty garbage collection: comcontrol

Reply: Warner Losh : "Re: old-school tty garbage collection: comcontrol"
In reply to: Warner Losh : "old-school tty garbage collection: comcontrol"
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From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek_at_cedro.info>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:27:55 UTC

On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> 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?

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