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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:25:20 +0000
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!
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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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