Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:00:19 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/gx if_gx.c if_gxreg.h if_gxvar.h Message-ID: <20011116070019.CC8CD380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200111160638.fAG6c6737514@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20011115221258.A80419@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Steve Kargl w
rites:
> : Would you encourage someone to do a binary upgrade
> : without reading about the changes in the system?
> : You're grasping at straws.
>
> User expectations are such that they don't expect device drivers to
> randomly disapper.
>
> I don't know if the wx community is small enough to worry about this
> or not.
Personally, I can deal with the MFC. I could even deal with it being
added to GENERIC instead of wx. But I dont see any improvement to the
user experience by yanking the working wx driver.
ifconfig will attempt to autoload if_wx.ko if it's present. If we
"remove" wx from the system, then /modules/if_wx.ko will go stale. That
will cause more problems than is worth. If anybody is really worried that
wx will cause problems, then add a "warning" entry to the conf/files
file telling people that its deprecated or whatever.
But I dont see benefit in removing it outright from -stable.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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