Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:53:52 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: djkanter@northwestern.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UPDATING is confusing me Message-ID: <200007092053.NAA16906@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <39686E28.CDF2A57B@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Jul 9, 0 09:20:56 pm"
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As I recall, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > The wd driver is not compiled in by default anymore, and has been > deprecated. It will sooner or later start collecting some bit > rot, and all sorts of problems can be expected from their usage > instead of the ata driver. There ought to be another term for what happens here than "bit rot". It's not so much that the code decomposes, it's that the hardware grows in unanticipated, unsupported ways. In my mind, bit rot is more like what happens in the ports collection, when the code is actively being modified, sometimes in ways that disenfranchise legacy devices. They are diametrically opposite. So, what should we call it? "Bit freshening" doesn't quite seem to capture it... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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