Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:35:55 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, 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: <27516.953044555@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:31:37 %2B0200." <20000314163137.A97953@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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