From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 15:25:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B3610656EC for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@exonetric.com) Received: from relay0.exonetric.net (relay0.exonetric.net [82.138.248.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A17DF8FC17 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from markimac.fairfx.local (unknown [62.244.179.66]) by relay0.exonetric.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C380F5701F; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:25:03 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4C87AACF.1060907@exonetric.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:25:03 +0100 From: Mark Blackman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100701 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson References: <201009011653.o81Grkm4056064@fire.js.berklix.net> <201009080842.28495.jhb@freebsd.org> <201009081021.48077.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C879E2F.6000107@exonetric.com> <20100908150613.GA10557@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20100908150613.GA10557@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Policy for removing working code X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:04 -0000 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:31:11PM +0100, Mark Blackman wrote: >> On top of which, I'd say that the general philosopy is always that >> you stick with the release that works for you. Surely the people who >> "need" those ISDN drivers, simply stay with the release that works for >> them. If they need new features as well as ISDN, they do a cost-benefit >> analysis on writing drivers to fit the new framework. > > > Only problem with that is that eventually those old releases stop > receiving security fixes at which point it might become downright > dangerous to continue using the old release. > I think that is exactly the situation now which started this discussion > - the last release supporting ISDN was 6.4, which is to be EOL soon. Fair point, although I'd say that's part of the cost-benefit analysis too, where features includes "up-to-date security fixes". Anyway, I finally reviewed the thread and an actual I4B user, Julian, seems to have concluded that investing a bit of time in the hps code is a net benefit, so all's well. :) - Mark