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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: davidg@freefall.freebsd.org, paul@alpha.netcraft.co.uk
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wd.c
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>>   Modified:    sys/i386/isa  wd.c
>>   Log:
>>   Make ATAPI support completely optional - if ATAPI isn't defined, the
>>   original code/algorithm is used completely (with one bugfix). This makes
>>   it "safe" to bring these changes into -stable.
>> 

>I'm not sure this is a good idea. It's too desired a feature to not be widely
>used and it's still very raw. Broken code will taint the whole release.

I hope that a month or two of alpha and beta testing will be enough to
stabilize it.  Where did the the months alphember and betober (between
September and October) go? :-).

Bruce