From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 7 13:28: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D62737B401; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38AF43E8A; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0388.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.133] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17yeTw-00013G-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:28:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3DA1EE0A.ACC9CAAF@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:26:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Paul Mather , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > I can appreciate matcd being dropped for 5.0 on pragmatic grounds, but > > it would have been nice to have it ride out the rest of 4.x, given that > > it actually works right now. (As I understand it, it's the adoption > > of GEOM that signalled the death knell of these old drivers, but GEOM > > is a 5.x feature that wouldn't be MFC'd back to 4.x...) > > Unfortunately there were other issues with the driver unrelated to GEOM > that required its removal. What are these? I've read the license, and it doesn't appear to be a license issue... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message