Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:34:15 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To: Nat Lanza <nlanza@premodern.org>
Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChipdriver("fla").
Message-ID: <3E3F26A7.411C73D7@mindspring.com>
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Nat Lanza wrote: > > But if that's the argument for removing it, then it's probably > > time to remove the ability to use non-DMA IDE drives from the > > ATA driver, and kill all the ethernet drivers that have alignment > > requirements for their DMA engines, making m_pullup copies > > necessary, and yanking all drivers that do destructive probes, > > and getting rid of the F00F workaround, and yanking all support > > for things hung off the floppy controller, etc. etc.. > > > > All that could be justified using exactly the same argument. > > It's great to hear you volunteering to maintain this driver, Terry. > > Thanks so much! Code that works doesn't *need* a maintainer. Neither does it need to be deprecated. When it quits working in a non-obvious way (e.g. not as a result of someone changing an interface out from under it, and failing to fix it up with the rest of the code), a maintainer will step forward and volunteer by submitting a patch to un-break it, or it will be time to deprecate it. Worst case, someone who cares very much about it will not have the skill to fix it, and will hire someone to fix it for them. That's how Open Source projects work. Arbitrarily diking out working code is bad policy. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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