Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:54:12 -0600 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991211125412.K760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:01:49PM %2B0100 References: <199912101752.KAA19725@mt.sri.com> <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 19:01:49 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199912101752.KAA19725@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >>> 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. Oh. Somehow I missed this. Sure, I saw commits, but I can't recall a "HEADS UP: ata is good enough for general testing now". If I had done so, I might have changed months ago, and a lot of this principle discussion would be deferred to the next night of the long axes. > 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. Again, it's not the bugs I'm worried about. Anyway, the 'else' part must read: and if not, it will go into -RELEASE buggy. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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