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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:29:08 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! 
Message-ID:  <19991212152908.747BC1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>  of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:19:20 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912121417110.9732-100000@arnold.neland.dk> 

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Leif Neland wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> >   (3)  A big notice in UPDATING, saying that ata is the replacement for
> >        wd.  Make wd require "options I_WANT_WD" or something similar,
> >        so that people can't simply re-config their existing configuration
> >        file.
> > 
> To be nasty: Change to to I_WANT_WD first.
> Next week: I_REALLY_WANT_WD
> Next week: I_REALLY_REALLY_WANT_WD
> and so on...
> 
> This should force all to concider changing to ata...
> 
> Leif

Well, I've added (which was fairly easy) a warning mechanism to config(8)
and have added warnings if the drivers are used.  It's pretty loud but it
shouldn't be able to be missed.

Cheers,
-Peter




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