From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 3 15:37: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (dhcp44-21.dis.org [216.240.44.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F219F37B403; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f63Mnpm38876; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107032249.f63Mnpm38876@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Andy Farkas , Peter Pentchev , Soren Schmidt , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd discontinued? Was: Re: IBM Netfinity 5000 Problem (ATA Driver Bug) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2001 00:33:42 +0200." <20010704003342.A2022@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:49:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:30:45AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > > With 4.3-RELEASE, possibly. With 4.3-STABLE and 4.4-and-future > > > releases, no - the 'wd' driver was discontinued. > > > > > > G'luck, > > > Peter > > > > So, what's the story with the wd driver going away in -STABLE?? It seems > > you are trying to do this very quietly hoping that no one will notice? > > If you did not notice you have not followed the discussions on -hackers. Following discussions on -hackers is hardly required for people running -stable. I had hoped that we'd see the last of the ata incompatibility issues resolved (especially with such mainstream hardware) before 'wd' was really axed. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message