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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r287016 - in stable/10: . share/man/man4 sys/arm/mv
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On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 07:32:48AM +0000, Alexander Motin wrote:
A> Author: mav
A> Date: Sat Aug 22 07:32:47 2015
A> New Revision: 287016
A> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/287016
A> 
A> Log:
A>   MFC r280451:
A>   Remove from legacy ata(4) driver support for hardware, supported by newer
A>   and more functional drivers ahci(4), siis(4) and mvs(4).
A>   
A>   This removes about 3400 lines of code, unused since FreeBSD 9.0 release.

What is the reason to break POLA in stable branch? 

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for removing stale code from head. But is it
worth to hurt someone who runs custom built kernel with 'device ad' and
tracks stable/10?


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