asr-utils not working with 5.3 release

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2005.04.01 15:18:04 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:

> Please Please Please someone step forward and re-write the asr
> utilities.  I don't like adding more band-aids to FreeBSD to cope with
> severe design flaws in the software that are fairly easy to fix.  Please
> get rid of the dmesg scraping that tries to create /dev nodes on the fly
> based on how the asr major number was previously displayed during boot.
> Please remove the ioctls that make the kernel poke around in Option ROM
> memory.  Please remove the ioctls that try to retrieve silly system
> stats from the kernel.  Please fix the silly signal handling that
> pervades the low-level API and makes it impossible to port it or
> incorporate it in more advanced front-ends.

Was it ever determined if there were a legal source version of the old
utils?  I remember talk about it but never any conclusion? (note I
haven't looked closely into it myself, just followed the threads about
the topic).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/attachments/20050402/5ffa3814/attachment.bin