Judging by the traffic on it over the last year it's in use widely.
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Brian Handy wrote: > >I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for > >the "National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board", according to > >LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps, -Wall fixes and the like, > >nobody's touched it since 1995. Does anybody have an AT-GPIB board, or > >even know what it is? > > I don't have one, but I know what these are. It's an interface for > talking to lab equipment like voltmeters, scanners, all sort of stuff. > All this "stuff" of course has to have a GPIB interface as well, but it > gets used a lot by those types of people. If I worked in a lab, I'd > almost assuredly be using the driver. No idea if it works. > > >Is there a good reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just > >bobbit it? > > It kills me to watch this go, but the surest way to bring a maintainer out > of the woodwork is to kill it. :-) If I still used this stuff, I think > this would be a *great* project to call my own. Deep sigh. But it's all > in the CVS tree, so if someone pops up, hey the stuff is still there for > the resurrection. > > > Brian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
