Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:29:19 -0500 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991208172918.A1282@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <199912082131.WAA31612@freebsd.dk>; from Soren Schmidt on Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:31:22PM %2B0100 References: <19991208150807.A16687@netmonger.net> <199912082131.WAA31612@freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:31:22PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > Hmm, well, if you want support for any of the new ata-66 controllers > you have to use the ata driver, so you loose some you win some. > Given that my patch for the SiS works and a patch I got from Luoqi, > the ONLY support you are loosing is the Cyrix. Personally, I've been using the new ata driver since it was first announced and haven't had any problems with it. But it appeared that a bunch of people piped up with various reasons they couldn't use it, so it seemed that it's a bit premature to delete wd entirely. > Well, progress doesn't come for free you know, somebody has to do the > hard work of actually implementing things. So if you think its going > too slowly, do something about it, help out where you can, but complaining > isn't helping anybody :) I'm not complaining. My remarks were not intended as an attack or complaint. I just think that it is a bad idea to completely delete the old driver while there are still a reasonable number of people who can't use the new one. As I said, I think it should have become the default a long time ago, so these people would have been somewhat more likely to have shown up before crunch time. I would love to do nothing more than help out with FreeBSD, but like almost all of us, my available time is limited. I have contributed my comments, bug reports, and occasional bits and pieces of code. This particular message should be interpreted more as a suggestion that new systems be made the default sooner in -current in order to get wider testing, but at the same time, the old system should be left as an option until that testing indicates it's safe for it to go away. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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