Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:29:08 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991212152908.747BC1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:19:20 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912121417110.9732-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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Leif Neland wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > (3) A big notice in UPDATING, saying that ata is the replacement for > > wd. Make wd require "options I_WANT_WD" or something similar, > > so that people can't simply re-config their existing configuration > > file. > > > To be nasty: Change to to I_WANT_WD first. > Next week: I_REALLY_WANT_WD > Next week: I_REALLY_REALLY_WANT_WD > and so on... > > This should force all to concider changing to ata... > > Leif Well, I've added (which was fairly easy) a warning mechanism to config(8) and have added warnings if the drivers are used. It's pretty loud but it shouldn't be able to be missed. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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