From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 19 17:51:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from goofy.zort.on.ca (cr575310-a.shprd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.185.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC42150D5 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:51:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rod@zort.on.ca) Received: from rbtBSD.intranet (rbtBSD.zort.on.ca [10.0.0.50]) by goofy.zort.on.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 100ADA5; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:51:05 -0500 (EST) From: Rod Taylor Reply-To: rod@zort.on.ca Organization: Zort To: Christopher Masto , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Neat little DPT utils... Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:48:38 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000119122927.A25745@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <20000119122927.A25745@netmonger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00011920510403.00537@rbtBSD.intranet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Unfortunately, we currently have a regression problem in FreeBSD. > Newer releases tend to drop support for things that have no active > maintainer (or a maintainer who is too worn out by continually > rewriting his or her software to cope with changed interfaces). > Another unfortunate side effect of this is that some developers base > their work on older releases rather than chase the moving target of > -current. If thats the case, then FreeBSD should stop changing :). Rather, with the capabilities of NewBus and the module system could it not be organized in such a way that the interface the driver requires is loaded along with the driver itself? Perhaps older interfaces just call the functions of the new interfaces. Give them a 1 or 2 year grace period to convert over before dropping them cold. (Thats 1 year in -stable, and 1 year of -current). -- Rod Taylor Partner of Zort (zort.on.ca) -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message