From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 13 15: 2:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailext03.compaq.com (mailext03.compaq.com [207.18.199.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C365D153A9 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:02:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id C1AE3151FB8; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint01.compaq.com [207.18.199.34]) by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAAB214850C; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:08 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 5DD0C825C3; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [155.186.83.42]) by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB3578B42; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:00 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01017; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:54:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:54:12 -0600 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991211125412.K760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <199912101752.KAA19725@mt.sri.com> <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:01:49PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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