From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 8:12:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B007115276 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 08:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA05388; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:11:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Soren Schmidt , Blaz Zupan , Christopher Masto , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:54:05 EST." <19991209225405.E866@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:11:53 +0100 Message-ID: <5386.944842313@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19991209225405.E866@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >We're getting off track again: the real issue is that you shouldn't >completely replace old drivers with new, better written, less buggy >drivers which have significantly less than the full functionality of >the old driver. And while that attitude might work for an organization where some PHB type can dictate what people should or shouldn't do, experience has taught us that at some point you draw a line in the sand and force people to concentrate on the path forward. Look at the sound code to see why your proposal doesn't work in our reality. -- 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message