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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:43:02 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, current@freebsd.org
Cc:        soren@freebsd.org
Subject:   Partial disabling of wd functionality (Was: Re: HEADSUP:  wd driver will  be retired!)
Message-ID:  <3850D936.FC555200@altavista.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912080939150.23236-100000@current1.whistle.com> <384EE77A.FC42FD9@altavista.net> <99Dec10.124407est.40329@border.alcanet.com.au>

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Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On 1999-Dec-09 10:19:22 +1100, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net> wrote:
> > Why do not remove from wd driver support for chipsets
> >already implemented/tested in ata driver?
>
> This requires additional developer effort - appropriate changes have to
> be determined and tested.  It's easy to totally remove the old driver,
> it would be a fair amount of effort to disable the functionality also
> provided by the new driver, without affecting the other functionality.

I'm not talking about disabling all functionality for partcular chips. It would
be sufficient to disable in wd DMA/UDMA support for chipsets already supported
by ata, which will encourage all users with these chipsets to use ata (while in
case of any problems they still will be able to fallback to wd though it would
work somewhat slower).

-Maxim



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