From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 22 17:52:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 885AE37B574 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:52:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: (qmail 84155 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Apr 2000 00:52:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Apr 2000 00:52:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:52:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Doug Barton Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Jonathan Michaels , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad144 missing? In-Reply-To: <390241F5.D759A78E@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Doug Barton wrote: [...] : Please get your facts straight before you panic. The wd driver has been : removed from 5.0-Current, as was advertised previously. It has not been, : and TMK will not be removed from 4.0-Stable. Sir, I understood this, I was simply thinking of the future which is a thing I do often. I understand that it will work under 4.0 however I am concerned at the approach taken. I do not run current since most of my machines are production, and the ones that are not, well - I do not ever claim to have the technical know-how to properly debug low level coding issues such as this. : Anyone wishing for support for their hardware in the ad driver that : doesn't already have it should be working with Soren to make it happen. : Otherwise, whining about it next year (when 5.0 becomes -Stable, or : whenever) will be silently ignored. I completely agree, it was not my intention to come cross as "whining" I understand the issues involved in making an O/S work on all kinds of different hardware combinations, and I do not expect such to be perfect! Overall, I'm more than thrilled with FreeBSD, it has served me far better than I ever could have hoped for. Though my post was rather negative sounding, please do not take it as a shot against FreeBSD, I should have worded my post more carefully. I'm willing to aide however I can, I am simply not sure of what I can actually do to help. I do not pretend to understand the code involved in such a thing, though I would be happy to help in any way recommended by someone with more know-how than I have. : Doug : -- : Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from : acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. : -- W. Somerset Maugham : Matt Heckaman matt@arpa.mail.net http://www.lucida.qc.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5AklfdMMtMcA1U5ARAkjrAJ9HwycetUzWtqBYlB0n7p1P7uH1eQCfYP5m k4g4vtgFudVYAw3DLV1/aiE= =zv0k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message