From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 15:44:35 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 A479514C8C for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:44:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA53269; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:44:17 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199912102344.QAA53269@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: from Brad Knowles at "Dec 10, 1999 11:22:57 pm" To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:44:16 -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 3:05 PM -0700 1999/12/10, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > 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. > > Long-term, yes I believe we gained a lot. Short-term, what I > recall having heard from some of the people who lived through it, > well let's just say it was really ugly and nasty for a certain period > of time. I don't think it was ugly and nasty at all. You're basing your opinions on second hand hearsay. If you can produce specific examples of why it was "really ugly and nasty", fine, but why not avoid making statements you can't support? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message