Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:22 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hans@artcom.de (Hans Huebner), julian@ivision.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB Message-ID: <12985.895600942@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 16:07:52 %2B0200." <199805191407.QAA02408@sos.freebsd.dk>
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> Erhm, this is not in the 2.2-stable charter folks, the patches that > should go into 2.2-stable should only be bugfixes etc, the next thing > is that somebody wants the SMP code into 2.2-stable... Erm. Supporting hardware, especially mainstream hardware (and large IDE drives are getting so cheap as to constitute mainstream), is well within the 2.2-stable charter and I'd be just as happy to add support for ATAPI CDRs (hint :) to 2.2.x since many many people ask for them. 2.2.x-stable has to be stable, this is indisputable, so features which do not benefit the user base at large, are highly experimental or cover something which is just too inconsequential to even risk a change over are certainly where the "line should be drawn." Failure to use all of a popular disk drive or rejecting a new driver which does not impact the old drivers (especially when such don't even exist :) is overly conservative, however, and not what -stable is about either. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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