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 -- 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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