From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 14 6:58:17 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D977537B6E0; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 06:56:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id QAA11929; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:55:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:55:29 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 Message-ID: <20000314165529.D97953@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> References: <20000314163137.A97953@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <27516.953044555@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <27516.953044555@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 03:35:55PM +0100 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 03:35:55PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20000314163137.A97953@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>, Ruslan Ermilov writes: > > >I though that plan was to leave the wd(4) driver in the code (which > >was, by the way, still supported by Bruce) until at least 4.1-RELEASE. > > > >This would give the new ata(4) driver a good testing period on a much > >larger user/hardware base, than -current. > > ata is default in 4.0-R it will get tested all right. > > >Having two drivers is good, because one could always try to switch to > >the old wd(4) driver until his problem with ata(4) driver gets resolved. > > Having two drivers is bad, because people tend to never switch to the > newer one. 4.X will still have the wd driver, 5.X will not. Its time > to switch from the carrot to the stick. > Damn, my apologies, for some moment I thought the driver was removed from RELENG_4. Forgot that we are now fifth time -current :-) -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message