Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 15:24:04 -0500 From: "Steven E. Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> To: "Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai" <asmodai@wxs.nl>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Brad Knowles" <blk@skynet.be>, "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Julian Elischer" <julian@whistle.com>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <016a01bf4283$56f92220$851a050a@winstar.com> References: <199912081856.KAA06231@mass.cdrom.com> <v04220815b4745c03e538@[195.238.21.204]> <19991208214001.56508@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991209205302.C65692@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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> >Next month it'll be -RELEASE. This isn't the time to remove such > >significant functionality. If it weren't for that, I'd agree with > >you. > > Think about that some more. Ditto :) The idea that seems to be here is to definately make ATA the default driver. Definately it should be the default driver for 4.0... but leave the 'wd' driver there as a fallback. After we've had a wide test audience of 4.0 users using the ATA driver it will likely cover every bit of hardware that 'wd' already does and do a better job. At that point 'wd' can be scrapped for 4.1-RELEASE. Big changes that have been little tested shouldn't be made just before RELEASE... not without a safety net. -Steve > > After that it will be 4.1. Nice to give people a driver and then rip it > out when 4.1 comes when Soren fixes the last of the things people > needed to have into the ata driver. > > I was already testing the ata driver and even procured some more info > for Soren than he already had. Same goes for a bunch of other people. > But the opposite goes for a lot of people. > > People running CURRENT to be cutting edge as in being elite with the > latest FreeBSD thus get bitten. > > I'd say, cut loose the wd driver. (VoxWare removed would be cool too.) > > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl] > Documentation nutter. *BSD: Technical excellence at its best... > The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; > Atone me to my throes curtail... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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