From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Apr 26 05:05:08 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4971716A4CF
	for <current@freebsd.org>; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:05:08 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CF343D54
	for <current@freebsd.org>; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:05:07 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk)
Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3QC56pZ044971;
	Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:05:06 +0200 (CEST)
	(envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk)
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:03:04 +0200."
             <20040425140304.A17564@uriah.heep.sax.de> 
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:05:06 +0200
Message-ID: <44970.1082981106@critter.freebsd.dk>
cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [j@uriah.heep.sax.de: Re: fdformat(8) doesn't work] 
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:05:08 -0000

In message <20040425140304.A17564@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Joerg Wunsch writes:

>I've noticed more (longer-standing) brokeness in the floppy driver
>as well: the automatic creation of cloned devices stopped working
>some time before FreeBSD 5.2.  I also intend to fix that.

Please do not reintroduce the density select cloning.

It collides pretty heavily with the way diskdevices operate these days
and it will make it practically impossible to make fd(4) behave like a
proper GEOM disk driver.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.