On 07-Oct-2002 Paul Mather wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:01:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > => [...] Note > => that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't > => be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices > => forever. > > During my last cvsup (I track 4.x-STABLE [RELENG_4]), I noticed that > the /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/matcd directory was deleted. When I browsed > the CVS repository, it appeared that matcd support was axed on > Oct. 5th, somewhat contradicting the notion that 4.x would continue to > support these devices. :-\ > > I can appreciate matcd being dropped for 5.0 on pragmatic grounds, but > it would have been nice to have it ride out the rest of 4.x, given that > it actually works right now. (As I understand it, it's the adoption > of GEOM that signalled the death knell of these old drivers, but GEOM > is a 5.x feature that wouldn't be MFC'd back to 4.x...)
Unfortunately there were other issues with the driver unrelated to GEOM that required its removal. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
