Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:10:21 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912101810.LAA19935@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199912101752.KAA19725@mt.sri.com> <6120.944848909@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >> In a few days time the wd driver will be retired from FreeBSDs > >> i386 architecture. > > > >Given that the ATA driver just went active a few minutes ago, I think a > >period of shakeout time would be called for. I think that time should > >be longer than a few days, and should be in 4.0, and then retired in > >4.1. > > The ata driver has been available for you and other to test for a long > time. And your point is? I'm a user, not a developer. If I wanted to be a developer, I'd have written my own device driver. I want to *USE* FreeBSD, not develop it. It's been considered 'alpha quality' until a couple of days ago. I wouldn't install beta software on any of my systems, and now you're telling me that in order to use FreeBSD, I have to become a beta-tester, since it may/may not work on my systems. > 4.0-REL is still some time away, so if you are quick you can still > give it a good shakeout and have any bugs you find fixed before > 4.0-RELEASE. So, again, who are our customers here? A bunch of developers who enjoy beta-testing other people's code, or people who want to *USE* FreeBSD? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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