Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 02:04:35 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT devices.i386 files.i386 majors.i386 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812280153480.12067-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199812271513.QAA12165@freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Kris Kennaway wrote: > >Hrm, how well-tested has this been? I hadn't been using the new driver because > >of: > > > >1.1 Tue Sep 8 20:57:47 1998 UTC by sos > > What CVS repository do you use, mine says: > > $Id: atapi-cd.c,v 1.6 1998/12/07 21:58:20 archie Exp $ The above was from the cvsweb output. My version of atapi-cd is indeed the same as yours - I was just quoting your original commit message, which seems to support my understanding that this was not originally intended as a replacement. If any announcement of the changeover was made, I didn't see it (and I usually read mailing lists pretty closely). All this is just trying to say that many people may not have made the change to your new driver yet, because they didn't realise it was "the future". There may be a lot of problems which haven't shown up so far simply because of lack of testing in varied environments. > >I don't know how much the code changed before you imported it into the tre, > >but I was able to panic my machine using the previous snapshot of the code you > >advertised on -hackers earlier in the year. > > It has bee tested pretty well, and besides its not that different from > the old one, it just add more functionality. It still panicked me :) I'll test and see if I can get it to do it again.. > >I wonder whether this isn't opening the door for loads of bug reports after > >3.0.1-release. > > Well, it wont be the only item in that department :) Assuredly not, but I don't really see the wisdom in cutting to a new driver version in the first "stable" 3.0 release, which may have unknown problems because no-one (if I'm correct in the above) knew it was the driver they should have been stress-testing :-) I wonder how many other people were still (like me) using wcd because they didn't know better.. Kris ----- productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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