From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 12: 2:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD01156C9; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:02:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.198.50]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAC59D3; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:02:11 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA79380; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 20:57:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 20:57:02 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Mike Smith , chris@netmonger.net, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <19991209205701.D65692@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <199912082052.MAA00517@mass.cdrom.com> <199912082219.XAA77409@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912082219.XAA77409@yedi.iaf.nl>; from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl on Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 11:19:58PM +0100 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [19991209 12:00], Wilko Bulte (wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) wrote: >As Mike Smith wrote ... >> > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:56:24AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > >> > [there] were the SCSI drivers lost to CAM >> >> Actually, most of this is histrionics. CAM didn't lose us SCSI drivers; > >Not quite true: the esp driver for the alphas got lost. No attack on anyone, >just stating a fact. Another state of fact, until no-one finds it annoying enough to fix it it will be Atticised for quite some time longer. Apparantly the people whom caused a ruckus about losing some functionality when moving to better designed new driver framework weren't quite that bothered at all. Else we would've seen submissions for those drivers to be upgraded to the new framework. Luoqi is a prime example for aic. (If my memory serves me right.) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl] Documentation nutter. *BSD: Technical excellence at its best... The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Atone me to my throes curtail... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message