Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:00:42 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: adriel <adriel@adriel.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone? Message-ID: <20010412190042.A11761@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010412150542.M5028@adriel.net>; from adriel@adriel.net on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:05:42PM -0500 References: <02db01c0c1b1$c1a0ffe0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> <20010410123317.A73359@irrelevant.org> <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010410153425.I5028@adriel.net> <20010410134934.Z15938@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010412150542.M5028@adriel.net>
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:05:42PM -0500, adriel wrote: > I suppose my frustration comes from changing something that worked > perfectly for no good reason, what exactly was wrong with compiling that > flag in the kernel, and why was it deemed "obsolete". I understand how > to do it now, but my point remains, why was I forced to change, what > advantage did I receive from this? I am not running -CURRENT. > > the main problem in my situation is that I have a DMA hd sharing an IDE > cdrom, if you dont enable the ATAPI_DMA then it wont allow dma on the > hard drive either. Maybe there is a good reason for this, but I still > do not understand why something that was not breaking the system would > be arbitrarily removed without any warning. The only POSSIBLE advantage > I could have seen with moving this to be sysctl only is that you could > change it without rebooting, and even that is not the case. Just because you don't run -CURRENT doesn't mean things aren't subject to change. Nobody is forcing you to cvsup; you don't have to change things if you don't want to. To keep a static system, run -RELEASE. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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