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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:33:42 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386
Message-ID:  <20000317133341.A11324@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20000315092842.B552@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:28:42AM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150146330.3450-100000@alphplex.bde.org> <27833.953047621@critter.freebsd.dk> <20000315092842.B552@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:28:42AM -0800, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> So far I've tended to agree with the axemen, but I don't agree with
> this statement.  We shouldn't gratuitiously limit hardware support,
> not even if it's for old and mouldy hardware.  We have a driver which
> can support it.  We shouldn't axe that driver (at least in -RELEASE)
> as long as its replacement can't support it.  Of course, we still need
> to establish that there is any hardware which it can't support and
> which the at driver can.

Very well said, Greg.  Cutting down the hardware support we already
have, is never a good thing.

However, if I got it right, the commit log does not refer to -RELEASE,
or -STABLE branches.  It's just for 5.0-CURRENT, that the wd driver is
gone.  The -CURRENT branch always was a bit dangerous thing to follow,
thus it's not strange that it might break after a while, get fixed, and
repeat the whole thing a few times.

- Giorgos Keramidas


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