Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:10:33 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: blaz@gold.amis.net (Blaz Zupan) Cc: chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912090810.JAA83704@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912090635140.676-100000@localhost> from Blaz Zupan at "Dec 9, 1999 06:41:23 am"
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It seems Blaz Zupan wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > > I fully agree that these things are neccessary and good. I just think > > we need avoid jumping the gun on removing the old code, when some > > people still need it to boot their machines. > > Actually I completely disagree. When you leave in old code in the tree, > people who can't use the new code for whatever reason (technical problems, > laziness, etc.) will use the old code. Forever. And people tend to not > report such things - if it works with the old code, why bother? If you > take something away from them, they will at least notice that it's broken > and report it to the author. > > >From my own experience, I lost the WaveLAN driver with the newbus stuff. > If it was somehow still working (for example through some compatibility > code for the old bus system), I'd not have done anything about it. But as > it was broken, I sat down and fixed it. Although my time is as limited as > everybody else's and it took me a whole day, I leared a lot through this. Wonderfully put, this is the _exact_ problem we are facing here. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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