Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:49:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd discontinued? Was: Re: IBM Netfinity 5000 Problem (ATA Driver Bug) Message-ID: <200107032249.f63Mnpm38876@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2001 00:33:42 %2B0200." <20010704003342.A2022@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:30:45AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> >
> > > With 4.3-RELEASE, possibly. With 4.3-STABLE and 4.4-and-future
> > > releases, no - the 'wd' driver was discontinued.
> > >
> > > G'luck,
> > > Peter
> >
> > So, what's the story with the wd driver going away in -STABLE?? It seems
> > you are trying to do this very quietly hoping that no one will notice?
>
> If you did not notice you have not followed the discussions on -hackers.
Following discussions on -hackers is hardly required for people running
-stable. I had hoped that we'd see the last of the ata incompatibility
issues resolved (especially with such mainstream hardware) before 'wd'
was really axed.
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