Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:22:22 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Kris Kennaway) Cc: eivind@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/camcontrol camcontrol.8 camcontrol.c src/sys/cam cam_ccb.h cam_sim.c cam_sim.h cam_xpt.c src/sys/cam/sc Message-ID: <199905100522.XAA74043@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9905101343320.14351-100000@bragg> from Kris Kennaway at "May 10, 1999 1:48:48 pm"
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Kris Kennaway wrote... > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > I will repeat myself: Breaking binary compatibility in -stable is > > *supposed to be an event*. This means that if you are doing it, you'd > > better be doing it for a reason that is good enough to send a message > > to -announce. > > I have to agree with this. Suppose a third-party vendor was producing > CAM-using code in binary form: this is no longer usable when people upgrade. > This can only hurt us. Fortunately, I think that's just a hyptothetical situation. As I said in my mail to Eivind, the only commercial application that I know of that ever used FreeBSD's SCSI passthrough interface (*) was xvscan. It still hasn't even been updated for CAM. (*) By this I mean an application that is sold to FreeBSD end-users. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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