From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 8 23:10:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E02A15126; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 23:10:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id HAA21028; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 07:47:20 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA77409; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 23:19:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199912082219.XAA77409@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: <199912082052.MAA00517@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 8, 1999 12:52:37 pm" To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 23:19:58 +0100 (CET) Cc: chris@netmonger.net, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Mike Smith wrote ... > > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:56:24AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Unfortunately, FreeBSD has far too many examples of a working system > > being replaced with a less functional system. Just off the top of my > > head, there were the SCSI drivers lost to CAM, the PCCARD system, > > sound drivers, and now ATA. > > Actually, most of this is histrionics. CAM didn't lose us SCSI drivers; Not quite true: the esp driver for the alphas got lost. No attack on anyone, just stating a fact. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message