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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:14:56 +0100 (BST)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@alpha.netcraft.co.uk>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, paul@netcraft.co.uk, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wd.c
Message-ID:  <199510012114.WAA26277@alpha.netcraft.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199510010436.VAA00135@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 30, 95 09:36:09 pm

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In reply to David Greenman who said
> 

I think the IDE cdrom is now so widely used that it will be considered
as much a core part of the system as the wd driver itself. The fact
remains that for a lot of people the IDE cdrom driver does not work.
2.1 was supposed to be a rock solid release, FreeBSD is going to have egg
on its face if a significant number of people expect it to work on their
cdrom's and it fails.

People wait for releases because they want the reliability.
A lot of people will have problems with the IDE driver because it
hasn't undergone this testing and that will tarnish the reputation of
reliability for yet another release.

>    Let me conclude in saying that I'm really not interested in arguing this
> point. I have too much to do and arguing about release decisions isn't

Fine, I won't pursue it any further but at least my views are now recorded.

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  Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd.
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