From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jun 19 09:28:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15391 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (root@gw100.feral.com [192.67.166.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15286 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:28:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral-gw (mjacob@gw100.feral.com [192.67.166.129]) by feral.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA12918; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:23:55 -0700 Message-ID: <358A909B.1DF72290@feral.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:23:55 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob Organization: Feral Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer CC: "Kenneth D. Merry" , Joao Carlos Mendes Luis , ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rolling CAM in, what is still needed? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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