Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:25:20 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991212122519.A95550@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <16968.944996378@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:59:38AM %2B0100 References: <19991212000349.A4242@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <16968.944996378@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:59:38AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >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.
wd.c
#ifndef I_WANT_WD
#error "You must really, really, really want to use this driver."
#error "See UPDATING for details."
#else
...
#endif
If someone takes their existing config file and tries to build a kernel
from it, it will break.
That meets every definition of "force CURRENT users to change their configs"
that I can think of.
N
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