From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 14:13:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB971542A for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:12:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA38475; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:12:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:12:51 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: <7282.944861570@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think there has been enough objections to the idea of just removing wd.c for it to stay for a few months. It doesn't hurt to keep it. Especially if it's not on by default. I think this argument can go away for a while. On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199912102115.OAA25113@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: > > >: The ATA driver went golden now, and to make sure nobody is distracted > >: from testing it before 4.0-RELEASE is cut, the wd driver will be > >: removed. > >: > >: It's really that simple. > > > >Isn't that unprecidented? In the past there has always been a period > >of shakeout between the two events longer than a couple of days. > > Well, the only precedent we have is CAM/SCSI, and it was done the > same way. > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message