From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 15 15:46:57 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51EA37B417; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:46:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAFNkiT72401; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:46:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:46:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Jonathan Lemon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/gx if_gx.c if_gxreg.h if_gxvar.h In-Reply-To: <20011115154043.A1031@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:26:39PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > No, if gx is backported, it replaces wx. There's ample precedent for > > this. Leaving it in place for a bit is a good thing, but prior to the next > > 4.X release wx certainly goes away. > > What is the precidence? We didn't remove 'wd' (replaced by 'ad') in > mid-STABLE. Disappearance of devices should be on major releases. > Ulp. I guess I was thinking about where I moved stuff around for isp- not the same thing. Let me argue it a different way- the device support isn't disappearing- it's reappearing in a different driver. Actually, if people care all that much about it, we'll write DEPRECATED in the man page for -stable and close PRs as they appear. It's not all that important. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message