From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 8 21:41:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.amis.net (server.amis.net [212.18.32.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D05155E5 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:41:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blaz@gold.amis.net) Received: from gold.amis.net (gold.amis.net [212.18.37.254]) by server.amis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67939D5C21; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 06:41:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by gold.amis.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D5E421D5F; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 06:41:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.amis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38995805; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 06:41:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 06:41:23 +0100 (CET) From: Blaz Zupan X-Sender: blaz@localhost To: Christopher Masto Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: <19991208180457.B1282@netmonger.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > I fully agree that these things are neccessary and good. I just think > we need avoid jumping the gun on removing the old code, when some > people still need it to boot their machines. Actually I completely disagree. When you leave in old code in the tree, people who can't use the new code for whatever reason (technical problems, laziness, etc.) will use the old code. Forever. And people tend to not report such things - if it works with the old code, why bother? If you take something away from them, they will at least notice that it's broken and report it to the author. From my own experience, I lost the WaveLAN driver with the newbus stuff. If it was somehow still working (for example through some compatibility code for the old bus system), I'd not have done anything about it. But as it was broken, I sat down and fixed it. Although my time is as limited as everybody else's and it took me a whole day, I leared a lot through this. Blaz Zupan, blaz@amis.net, http://home.amis.net/blaz/ Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message