kern/116538: [fdc] [patch] reintroduce FD_NO_CHLINE flag for fdc(4)

[Bruce Evans]

The following reply was made to PR kern/116538; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au>
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.pp.ru>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: kern/116538: [fdc] [patch] reintroduce FD_NO_CHLINE flag for
 fdc(4)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:25:02 +1000 (EST)

 On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
 
 > On at, 22 Sep 2007, Bruce Evans wrote:
 >
 >>> We need FD_NO_CHLINE flag again until fdc(4) fixed.
 >> What happens for older FDD controllers that don't support the change
 >> line, and hardware with a broken change line?
 >
 > I have no such hardware and cannot check. I suppose, it suffers
 > from the same problem.
 
 The hardware is easy to break :-).
 
 I think there's a difference between controllers without support and
 controllers+hardware that the driver doesn't understand.  I hope there
 is only a problem with the latter.
 
 > [skip]
 >
 > Concerning the style remark you have done, feel free to commit version
 > you like. I'm not a committer, anyway :-)
 
 Sorry, I won't be committing anything to fdc.
 
 Bruce