Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 00:36:59 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912090033330.24372-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199912090810.JAA83704@freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > >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. > Besides if you leave the old subsystem fully functional, then some individual working on their own can decide to totally delete your new working subsystem from the tree just for fun. But then THAT would never happen would it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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