Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 01:42:59 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: newbus and modem(s) Message-ID: <371A0B93.527905D5@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904180911420.83760-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Alex Zepeda wrote: > > Which means that it perhaps should be worked out before being merged. Take > for instance CAM. It didn't work perfectly, but it sure got a lot more > exposure than newbus, and when it was integrated it caused very few > problems. I think CAM is a very bad example. We *still* don't have all the drivers we had, and that includes at least one reasonably requested driver. On the other hand, I don't see we losing anything with newbus, which is quite a feat given the extent of the changes. Moreover, I have seen very few problems reported. Changing the compiler to egcs seems to have produced more waves, in fact. > Well, why not make ext2fs the default fs just to shake things up? It's > one thing to expect panics and soon, but it's another thing to import code > that wasn't ready. It seems to work on my computer. Why do you say it isn't ready? A reality check seems to be in order. It would seem you are peeved because some of the very few gliches affected you. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?371A0B93.527905D5>