From owner-cvs-all Sun May 9 22:22:49 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA2214DB4; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) id XAA74043; Sun, 9 May 1999 23:22:22 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199905100522.XAA74043@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/camcontrol camcontrol.8 camcontrol.c src/sys/cam cam_ccb.h cam_sim.c cam_sim.h cam_xpt.c src/sys/cam/sc In-Reply-To: from Kris Kennaway at "May 10, 1999 1:48:48 pm" To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Kris Kennaway) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:22:22 -0600 (MDT) Cc: eivind@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Kris Kennaway wrote... > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > I will repeat myself: Breaking binary compatibility in -stable is > > *supposed to be an event*. This means that if you are doing it, you'd > > better be doing it for a reason that is good enough to send a message > > to -announce. > > I have to agree with this. Suppose a third-party vendor was producing > CAM-using code in binary form: this is no longer usable when people upgrade. > This can only hurt us. Fortunately, I think that's just a hyptothetical situation. As I said in my mail to Eivind, the only commercial application that I know of that ever used FreeBSD's SCSI passthrough interface (*) was xvscan. It still hasn't even been updated for CAM. (*) By this I mean an application that is sold to FreeBSD end-users. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message