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Date:      Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:07:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021007120743.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021007141449.GB7485@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>

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On 07-Oct-2002 Paul Mather wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> => [...] Note
> => that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't
> => be dropped until 5.0.  4.x. would continue to support these devices
> => forever.
> 
> During my last cvsup (I track 4.x-STABLE [RELENG_4]), I noticed that
> the /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/matcd directory was deleted.  When I browsed
> the CVS repository, it appeared that matcd support was axed on
> Oct. 5th, somewhat contradicting the notion that 4.x would continue to
> support these devices. :-\
> 
> I can appreciate matcd being dropped for 5.0 on pragmatic grounds, but
> it would have been nice to have it ride out the rest of 4.x, given that
> it actually works right now.  (As I understand it, it's the adoption
> of GEOM that signalled the death knell of these old drivers, but GEOM
> is a 5.x feature that wouldn't be MFC'd back to 4.x...)

Unfortunately there were other issues with the driver unrelated to GEOM
that required its removal.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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