From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 0:10:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064D515281 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 00:10:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA83704; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:10:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912090810.JAA83704@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: from Blaz Zupan at "Dec 9, 1999 06:41:23 am" To: blaz@gold.amis.net (Blaz Zupan) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:10:33 +0100 (CET) Cc: chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Blaz Zupan wrote: > 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. Wonderfully put, this is the _exact_ problem we are facing here. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message