From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 10:15:54 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 A18C3157FD for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:15:49 -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 LAA24231; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:15:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA20053; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:15:46 -0700 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:15:46 -0700 Message-Id: <199912101815.LAA20053@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: <6246.944849661@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199912101810.LAA19935@mt.sri.com> <6246.944849661@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. > > Then don't run -current. I don't, but I will be running 4.0, which won't have a WD driver. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message