From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 7 9: 7:44 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 9CC6D37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC45143E4A for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7055 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2002 16:07:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 7 Oct 2002 16:07:41 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g97G7dn5002482; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:07:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021007141449.GB7485@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:07:43 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Paul Mather Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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 07-Oct-2002 Paul Mather wrote: > 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...) Unfortunately there were other issues with the driver unrelated to GEOM that required its removal. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message