Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:55:29 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 Message-ID: <20000314165529.D97953@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <27516.953044555@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 03:35:55PM %2B0100 References: <20000314163137.A97953@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <27516.953044555@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 03:35:55PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20000314163137.A97953@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>, Ruslan Ermilov writes: > > >I though that plan was to leave the wd(4) driver in the code (which > >was, by the way, still supported by Bruce) until at least 4.1-RELEASE. > > > >This would give the new ata(4) driver a good testing period on a much > >larger user/hardware base, than -current. > > ata is default in 4.0-R it will get tested all right. > > >Having two drivers is good, because one could always try to switch to > >the old wd(4) driver until his problem with ata(4) driver gets resolved. > > Having two drivers is bad, because people tend to never switch to the > newer one. 4.X will still have the wd driver, 5.X will not. Its time > to switch from the carrot to the stick. > Damn, my apologies, for some moment I thought the driver was removed from RELENG_4. Forgot that we are now fifth time -current :-) -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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