From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 10:10:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10607157D6 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA24143; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:10:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA19935; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:10:21 -0700 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:10:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199912101810.LAA19935@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199912101752.KAA19725@mt.sri.com> <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs > >> i386 architecture. > > > >Given that the ATA driver just went active a few minutes ago, I think a > >period of shakeout time would be called for. I think that time should > >be longer than a few days, and should be in 4.0, and then retired in > >4.1. > > The ata driver has been available for you and other to test for a long > time. And your point is? I'm a user, not a developer. If I wanted to be a developer, I'd have written my own device driver. I want to *USE* FreeBSD, not develop it. It's been considered 'alpha quality' until a couple of days ago. I wouldn't install beta software on any of my systems, and now you're telling me that in order to use FreeBSD, I have to become a beta-tester, since it may/may not work on my systems. > 4.0-REL is still some time away, so if you are quick you can still > give it a good shakeout and have any bugs you find fixed before > 4.0-RELEASE. So, again, who are our customers here? A bunch of developers who enjoy beta-testing other people's code, or people who want to *USE* FreeBSD? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message