Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:59:38 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <16968.944996378@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:03:49 GMT." <19991212000349.A4242@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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In message <19991212000349.A4242@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>, Nik Clayton writ es: >On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:01:49PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> The ata driver has been available for you and other to test for a long >> time. > >That may be the case, but the vast majority of our users don't run >-current, for good reason, and so are in no position to test it. 4.0 >will be their first exposure to ata, and you should definitely expect >it to have problems that have been shaken out of the wd driver. > >Poul, I'd like to know what's wrong with > > (1) Putting ata in GENERIC > > (2) Keeping wd in LINT, commented out This will not force CURRENT users to change their configs, a config with wd in it will still work unchanged. Peter just added code for issuing warnings, but I'd prefer for the build to actually break until people fix it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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