In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> The ATA driver went golden now, and to make sure nobody is distracted
>> from testing it before 4.0-RELEASE is cut, the wd driver will be
>> removed.
>>
>> It's really that simple.
>
>Well, I'm not sure that's really true yet and I would honestly prefer
>it if you wouldn't make "conclusive statements" like this without
>waiting for a reasonable period of time, *after* the flame war in
>progress has died down and everyone's done venting and flapping their
>arms, to come to a decision with all the "votes" carefully weighed
>(and appropriately weighted).
>
>To do otherwise would send a strong message that your intention was to
>procede regardless of public opinion, which would further imply that
>the more consensus-based process of deciding these things somehow does
>not apply to you.
I am keeping very close track of the messages from people who report
problems with the new drivers, but I am totally ignoring the noise
by people who "just on principle" are against this move.
>In any case, the Real Issue here appears to be whether or not it's
>necessary to socially engineer people by removing the wd driver one
>week after the ata driver was declared "golden" or whether it's
>perhaps more prudent to simply leave the damn thing there for now and
>just stop maintaining it, leaving its future to Darwin and/or some
>future committer who takes an axe to it because it's rotted for so
>long that it finally no longer even builds and/or functions at all.
>All other discussion has been more or less tangental to that issue.
Unless we break kernel configs with the wd driver in it, we will
never get rid of it.
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