From owner-freebsd-commit Sun Oct 1 14:17:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA00504 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 14:17:52 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA00491 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 14:17:49 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA00474 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 14:17:46 -0700 Received: from alpha.netcraft.co.uk (alpha.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA00459 ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 14:17:28 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by alpha.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA26277; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:14:56 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199510012114.WAA26277@alpha.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wd.c To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:14:56 +0100 (BST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, paul@netcraft.co.uk, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510010436.VAA00135@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 30, 95 09:36:09 pm Reply-to: paul@netcraft.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1029 Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)