From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 13 15: 2:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailext02.compaq.com (mailext02.compaq.com [207.18.199.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE7415425 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext02.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 4F9479A82F; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint01.compaq.com [207.18.199.34]) by mailext02.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB1C90D82; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:09 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 37A31825C3; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [155.186.83.42]) by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD9178B42; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:01 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01045; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:58:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:58:31 -0600 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991211125831.M760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <199912101815.LAA20053@mt.sri.com> <6332.944849983@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <6332.944849983@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:19:43PM +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 19:19:43 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199912101815.LAA20053@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: > >>>> And your point is? I'm a user, not a developer. If I wanted to be a >>>> developer, I'd have written my own device driver. I want to *USE* >>>> FreeBSD, not develop it. >>> >>> Then don't run -current. >> >> I don't, but I will be running 4.0, which won't have a WD driver. > > > Maybe we should put a special marker in -currents sendmail and > reject all email to the current list if they don't originate > from such a system. > > > So, if you're not running -current, please stop whining on the > -current list will you ? > > 4.0 will have a perfectly good diskdriver, we probably have two > entire months to find and nail any remaning bugs, so what the > proton do you think you're acheiving by whining here ? Two months? I thought the date was 15 January. Anyway, it's fairly evident what Nate's "whining" about. What part of "FUNCTIONALITY LOSS" don't you understand? > I'll tell you in case you can't figure out the answer to that rather > simple question: You're annoying people and wasting developer time. > That's what. OK, why don't you save time and leave wd in the tree. Comment it out of GENERIC, leave a comment explaining what it's for and that it will go away as soon as ata has the complete functionality. 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