From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 12 7:29:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B566014D0F; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 07:29:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747BC1CA0; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:29:08 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Leif Neland Cc: Nik Clayton , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: Message from Leif Neland of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:19:20 +0100." Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:29:08 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991212152908.747BC1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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