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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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