From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 11:33:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA18386 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:33:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA18361 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:33:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA10450 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:33:08 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA24629; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:11:57 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970402211157.WU57156@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:11:57 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code maintenance References: <19970402091209.IH24661@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199704021758.KAA13892@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704021758.KAA13892@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 2, 1997 10:58:50 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > So if the kernel interfaces have not changed, the code still works, > just not excitingly well? Yes, aic(4) and ft(4) still work, more or less. We'd probably have removed them otherwise. But in particular ft(4) suffers from a not very elegant design, and its unmaintained state resulted in it being almost worthless over time, since it doesn't handle the more modern drives that are available now at all. If it remains unmaintained, the day will come when all the previously existing drives it used to support on the earth are dead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)