From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 13 15: 2:36 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 7833315440 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 24D7C151FB5; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:17 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint01.compaq.com [207.18.199.34]) by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAD914850C; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:17 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id B20A3825C3; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [155.186.83.42]) by mailint01.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321CB78B42; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:02:09 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00974; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:43:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:43:44 -0600 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen McKay Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brad Knowles Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991211124343.I760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <199912102344.QAA53269@panzer.kdm.org> <199912110239.MAA01680@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 +1000 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 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