Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 11:48:31 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912081044360.23315-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <34305.944677140@critter.freebsd.dk>
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that is not the way it should be.. Someone replacing a module and deleting th eoriginal should make a decent effort to cover all the present functionality. (OR make a decision that such functionality will never be covered, (e.g. bad144)). Just breaking things because you felt you'd rather not spend the time doing it is not an answer. Making something drop back from DMA to non DMA comes under the heading "breaking" for me. On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Julian, > > Removing wd doesn't leave anybody with a broken system, but certain > code may have to be ported and tested by the people who have the > hardware. > > If you have the hardware for some of these IDE controllers, I'm sure > sos will receive and integrate your patches. > > Poul-Henning > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912080939150.23236-100000@current1.whistle.com>, Jul > ian Elischer writes: > > > >because it doesn't support the chipsets that the old one does. > >(namely the 200 or so lines of support in pci_ide.c needed for the Cyrix > >GXM series). > > > >You shouldn't remove a function until it has been properly replaced. > >A very simple concept some people seem to have trouble grasping. > > > >On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > >> It seems Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >> > please do not remove it.. > >> > >> And why is that ?? There is no point in having done a new one then, and > >> you guys have known I've been working on this for ages so this cannot > >> come as a surprise to anybody... > >> > >> The same thing is about to apply to the woxware sound code, we have a > >> new shiny system that works and is much better designed... > >> > >> -Søren > >> > > > > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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