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Date:      Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:48:28 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        phk@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org, <cvs-all@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.ia64 
Message-ID:  <20030118103138.M9539-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <14438.1042844975@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 phk@freebsd.org wrote:

> In message <20030118100149.T9442-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
> >On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> >> phk         2003/01/17 14:09:12 PST
> >>
> >>   Modified files:
> >>     sys/conf             files.ia64
> >>   Log:
> >>   ia64 didn't need subr_diskslice.c and subr_diskmbr.c either.
> >>
> >>   Revision  Changes    Path
> >>   1.44      +0 -2      src/sys/conf/files.ia64
> >
> >These files are not machine-dependent.  If I had an ia64, then they
> >would be needed for the fd and cd drivers, since my versions of the
> >fd driver uses subr_diskslice.c directly and my version of the cd driver
> >uses the disk mini-layer which uses subr_diskmbr.c in the NOGEOM case.
>
> This time I'm absolutely sure I only committed to FreeBSD.

You are removing infrastructure that is in use and would be needed for
future commits.  I'm waiting for ken to commit my patches to unbreak the
cd driver.  My version of the fd driver has used the slice layer since
1995.  I don't expect you to supply patches for it.  Just don't remove
its infrastructure.  The fd driver and cd drivers generally are especially
interesting since they don't fit well into either GEOM or the disk mini-
layer.  For the fd driver, this is mainly because it has multiple
densities and wants multiple device names for the top-level device.  It
is unreasonable for a general layer to handle these complications.

> BTW: you read arch@FreeBSD.org, right ?

Yes.  I misread the point that you would actively remove non-GEOM bits
in -current after the branchpoint, leaving only 5.0 and previous
versions usable for me.

Bruce


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