Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:29:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Hilliard <nick@iol.ie> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912112329.XAA16749@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie>
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phk wrote: > This is *CURRENT* remember ? We want this transistion done and > tested before current becomes 4.0-RELEASE. The time is NOW! Not quite: this is -current, 4 days before a functionality freeze and potentially less than one month before 4.0-RELEASE. Replacing critical parts of the system at this stage is a bad idea because it's simply not going to leave enough time for the ata drivers to mature and stabilise to the same level as the wd drivers. By all means, make the transition, but if you're going to do it, please don't release 4.0 in early Jan. As an end user, I have no problem with the removal of the wd drivers (or with releasing 4.0 a little later than planned), but if making this transition is something which is going to potentially compromise either stability or hardware support due to the time-scales involved, then it is ill-advised. This isn't Linux, you know. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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