Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:48:38 -0500 From: Rod Taylor <rod@zort.on.ca> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Neat little DPT utils... Message-ID: <00011920510403.00537@rbtBSD.intranet> In-Reply-To: <20000119122927.A25745@netmonger.net> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000119093915.23986B-100000@larry.spacestar.net> <20000119122927.A25745@netmonger.net>
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Unfortunately, we currently have a regression problem in FreeBSD. > Newer releases tend to drop support for things that have no active > maintainer (or a maintainer who is too worn out by continually > rewriting his or her software to cope with changed interfaces). > Another unfortunate side effect of this is that some developers base > their work on older releases rather than chase the moving target of > -current. If thats the case, then FreeBSD should stop changing :). Rather, with the capabilities of NewBus and the module system could it not be organized in such a way that the interface the driver requires is loaded along with the driver itself? Perhaps older interfaces just call the functions of the new interfaces. Give them a 1 or 2 year grace period to convert over before dropping them cold. (Thats 1 year in -stable, and 1 year of -current). -- Rod Taylor Partner of Zort (zort.on.ca) -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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