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Date:      Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:23:55 -0700
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>, ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rolling CAM in, what is still needed?
Message-ID:  <358A909B.1DF72290@feral.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980619074704.11965B-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> surely both old and new interfaces can co-exist..
> this is really quite important for netBSD binary compatibility..
> Juat mention in the man pages that the old one is less prefered and slower
> (is it?)

The term usually used is "deprecated interfaces". And usual deprecation
rules are to stop documenting a departing interface at one release, but
leave it in place, and the next remove it entirely.

> 
> Surely the old interface is pretty generic..
> 
> (userland scsi that is)

Yes, but how many of these are there that Ken hasn't done yet?

If it's really a consensus on everyone's part to have the OLD
interfaces around, Ken, I'll help integrate that.

-matt

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