From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 8 10:10:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E721516D; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA56167; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:42:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:42:45 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: <199912081721.SAA70567@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG because it doesn't support the chipsets that the old one does. (namely the 200 or so lines of support in pci_ide.c needed for the Cyrix GXM series). You shouldn't remove a function until it has been properly replaced. A very simple concept some people seem to have trouble grasping. On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Julian Elischer wrote: > > > please do not remove it.. > > And why is that ?? There is no point in having done a new one then, and > you guys have known I've been working on this for ages so this cannot > come as a surprise to anybody... > > The same thing is about to apply to the woxware sound code, we have a > new shiny system that works and is much better designed... > > -Søren > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message