From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:09:11 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <072d1db9787b42047b3f8428d3a2f2bd@chula.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <2579c0.6486557d.QSTb.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> References: <2579c0.6486557d.QSTb.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] hardware device (...) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 684a84ca-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > folks don't write code until they want it. until now, nobody has cared > enough about cameras or scanners or printers (though i thought ethernet > connected printers work more or less (but i've never printed anything)) > to do anything. now you care, maybe you'll write them. the beauty of plan > 9 is that it's easy to write drivers if you have decent documentation. > which you will for at least some of the devices you listed. > > or maybe some common user-oriented device support like this would make a > good Google Summer of Code project? you'd do much better in gsoc if you limited your scope. - erik