From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 7 7:15: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FC037B401; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.49.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF8843EB2; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:15:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (localhost.dlib.vt.edu [127.0.0.1]) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g97EEv0D007816 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:14:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: (from paul@localhost) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g97EEnL0007814; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:14:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:14:49 -0400 From: Paul Mather To: John Baldwin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? Message-ID: <20021007141449.GB7485@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline X-No-Archive: yes X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 4.7-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: => [...] Note => that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't => be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices => forever. During my last cvsup (I track 4.x-STABLE [RELENG_4]), I noticed that the /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/matcd directory was deleted. When I browsed the CVS repository, it appeared that matcd support was axed on Oct. 5th, somewhat contradicting the notion that 4.x would continue to support these devices. :-\ I can appreciate matcd being dropped for 5.0 on pragmatic grounds, but it would have been nice to have it ride out the rest of 4.x, given that it actually works right now. (As I understand it, it's the adoption of GEOM that signalled the death knell of these old drivers, but GEOM is a 5.x feature that wouldn't be MFC'd back to 4.x...) Cheers, Paul. e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message