Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:58:31 -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: <19991211125831.M760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <6332.944849983@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:19:43PM %2B0100 References: <199912101815.LAA20053@mt.sri.com> <6332.944849983@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 19:19:43 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199912101815.LAA20053@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: > >>>> And your point is? I'm a user, not a developer. If I wanted to be a >>>> developer, I'd have written my own device driver. I want to *USE* >>>> FreeBSD, not develop it. >>> >>> Then don't run -current. >> >> I don't, but I will be running 4.0, which won't have a WD driver. > > <NOTE TO="SELF"> > Maybe we should put a special marker in -currents sendmail and > reject all email to the current list if they don't originate > from such a system. > </NOTE> > > So, if you're not running -current, please stop whining on the > -current list will you ? > > 4.0 will have a perfectly good diskdriver, we probably have two > entire months to find and nail any remaning bugs, so what the > proton do you think you're acheiving by whining here ? Two months? I thought the date was 15 January. Anyway, it's fairly evident what Nate's "whining" about. What part of "FUNCTIONALITY LOSS" don't you understand? > I'll tell you in case you can't figure out the answer to that rather > simple question: You're annoying people and wasting developer time. > That's what. OK, why don't you save time and leave wd in the tree. Comment it out of GENERIC, leave a comment explaining what it's for and that it will go away as soon as ata has the complete functionality. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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