On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Unfortunately, we currently have a regression problem in FreeBSD.
> Newer releases tend to drop support for things that have no active
> maintainer (or a maintainer who is too worn out by continually
> rewriting his or her software to cope with changed interfaces).
> Another unfortunate side effect of this is that some developers base
> their work on older releases rather than chase the moving target of
> -current.
If thats the case, then FreeBSD should stop changing :).
Rather, with the capabilities of NewBus and the module system could it not be
organized in such a way that the interface the driver requires is loaded along
with the driver itself? Perhaps older interfaces just call the functions of
the new interfaces. Give them a 1 or 2 year grace period to convert over
before dropping them cold. (Thats 1 year in -stable, and 1 year of -current).
--
Rod Taylor
Partner of Zort (zort.on.ca)
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