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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:54:12 -0600
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!
Message-ID:  <19991211125412.K760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:01:49PM %2B0100
References:  <199912101752.KAA19725@mt.sri.com> <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 19:01:49 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <199912101752.KAA19725@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
>>> In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs
>>> i386 architecture.
>>
>> Given that the ATA driver just went active a few minutes ago, I think a
>> period of shakeout time would be called for.  I think that time should
>> be longer than a few days, and should be in 4.0, and then retired in
>> 4.1.
>
> The ata driver has been available for you and other to test for a long
> time.

Oh.  Somehow I missed this.  Sure, I saw commits, but I can't recall a
"HEADS UP: ata is good enough for general testing now".  If I had done
so, I might have changed months ago, and a lot of this principle
discussion would be deferred to the next night of the long axes.

> 4.0-REL is still some time away, so if you are quick you can still
> give it a good shakeout and have any bugs you find fixed before
> 4.0-RELEASE.

Again, it's not the bugs I'm worried about.  Anyway, the 'else' part
must read: and if not, it will go into -RELEASE buggy.

Greg
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