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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:05:53 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles)
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!
Message-ID:  <199912102205.PAA52840@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <v04220809b47724ea06b3@[195.238.25.55]> from Brad Knowles at "Dec 10, 1999 10:47:22 pm"

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Brad Knowles wrote...
> At 10:32 PM +0100 1999/12/10, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> >  Well, the only precedent we have is CAM/SCSI, and it was done the
> >  same way.
> 
> 	Given some of the things I've heard about the CAM/SCSI debacle, 
> I'm not sure that this is a good example to be trotting out right 
> now.  Personally, I don't think that this is an experience we'd want 
> to be repeating -- especially not with something related to disk 
> devices.

I agree that the CAM integration shouldn't be used as a precedent here.  I
don't agree with your characterization of it as a "debacle", though.

On the whole, we gained a whole lot and lost very little.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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