Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:43:44 -0600 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991211124343.I760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199912110239.MAA01680@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>; from syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au on Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:39:15PM %2B1000 References: <v0422080eb4772d6606b3@[195.238.25.55]> <199912102344.QAA53269@panzer.kdm.org> <199912110239.MAA01680@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
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On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 12:39:15 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > > But that shouldn't stop us from moving forward with the ata driver. I > think that a small slowing of the pace, and a bit more understanding toward > those with unusual hardware will help. And I support PHK's hard line > stance (except for the rushed pace) toward making the kernel break for > users of wd. It has to be so, or no one will move. The wd code will > still be in the CVS tree for desperate people to revive to use, and to > port the missing bits into the ata driver. The kind of people I'm talking about are end users. They wouldn't know how to extract the driver from the CVS tree and build it. 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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