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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:36:33 -0600
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!
Message-ID:  <19991211123633.G760@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <5386.944842313@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 05:11:53PM %2B0100
References:  <19991209225405.E866@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <5386.944842313@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 17:11:53 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <19991209225405.E866@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>
>> We're getting off track again: the real issue is that you shouldn't
>> completely replace old drivers with new, better written, less buggy
>> drivers which have significantly less than the full functionality of
>> the old driver.
>
> And while that attitude might work for an organization where some
> PHB type can dictate what people should or shouldn't do, experience
> has taught us that at some point you draw a line in the sand and
> force people to concentrate on the path forward.

Experience has also taught us that people draw the lines in different
places.  I haven't seen enough consideration of the end user in all
this discussion.

> Look at the sound code to see why your proposal doesn't work in our
> reality.

You're going to have to help me here.  I hadn't used the sound code up
to a couple of months ago.

Greg
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