From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 12 2:59:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95C3150B7; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 02:59:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA16970; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:59:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Nik Clayton Cc: Nate Williams , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:03:49 GMT." <19991212000349.A4242@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:59:38 +0100 Message-ID: <16968.944996378@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19991212000349.A4242@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>, Nik Clayton writ es: >On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:01:49PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> The ata driver has been available for you and other to test for a long >> time. > >That may be the case, but the vast majority of our users don't run >-current, for good reason, and so are in no position to test it. 4.0 >will be their first exposure to ata, and you should definitely expect >it to have problems that have been shaken out of the wd driver. > >Poul, I'd like to know what's wrong with > > (1) Putting ata in GENERIC > > (2) Keeping wd in LINT, commented out This will not force CURRENT users to change their configs, a config with wd in it will still work unchanged. Peter just added code for issuing warnings, but I'd prefer for the build to actually break until people fix it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message