Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:22:24 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <7594.944864544@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:15:52 EST." <199912102215.RAA24287@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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In message <199912102215.RAA24287@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes: >This discussion is not going anywhere. Why can't everyone calm down and >find a comprise? Here's my proposal: > >1. leave the the code and config option in the source tree for now >2. remove all traces of wd in documentation/GENERIC/LINT/MAKEDEV > >that is, anyone who wants to use the wd driver still can, but it is officially >unsupported. This fails the most important criteria for the transistion to ATA: it doesn't break existing kernel configs. Listen guys, this is a tempest in a tea-cup, we are not loosing any functionality here, we are gaining functionality. The wd driver doesn't have anything to recommend it on the i386 platform and we need to switch to ATA. This is *CURRENT* remember ? We want this transistion done and tested before current becomes 4.0-RELEASE. The time is NOW! If we don't force people over to the ata driver it will not get tested as much as it needs to. -- 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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