From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 14: 6:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3996F15175 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:06:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA52840; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:05:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199912102205.PAA52840@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: from Brad Knowles at "Dec 10, 1999 10:47:22 pm" To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:05:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote... > At 10:32 PM +0100 1999/12/10, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > Well, the only precedent we have is CAM/SCSI, and it was done the > > same way. > > Given some of the things I've heard about the CAM/SCSI debacle, > I'm not sure that this is a good example to be trotting out right > now. Personally, I don't think that this is an experience we'd want > to be repeating -- especially not with something related to disk > devices. I agree that the CAM integration shouldn't be used as a precedent here. I don't agree with your characterization of it as a "debacle", though. On the whole, we gained a whole lot and lost very little. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message