At 03:26 PM 21/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
Ok, Robert, but then here's the question....

How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a
production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the working
code?

I understand your frustration, but others would argue if the changes were not made that would say (and have) "How come modern and common hardware like XXXX do not work with FreeBSD. The driver is old and unmaintained and does not support feature YYYYY." I dont see Soren's work as "screwing with production drivers" as opposed to him re-writing them to take advantage of modern hardware designs. Unfortunately along the way some things might break. They have for me, but that sometimes happens in open source (and commercial code too for that matter).

---Mike
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