From: Paul Richards <paul@alpha.netcraft.co.uk>
Message-Id: <199509301631.RAA11412@alpha.netcraft.co.uk>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wd.c
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 17:31:18 +0100 (BST)
Cc: davidg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org,
        cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199509301621.CAA08679@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 1, 95 02:21:54 am
Reply-To: paul@netcraft.co.uk
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In reply to Bruce Evans who said
> 
> >>   Modified:    sys/i386/isa  wd.c
> >>   Log:
> >>   Make ATAPI support completely optional - if ATAPI isn't defined, the
> >>   original code/algorithm is used completely (with one bugfix). This makes
> >>   it "safe" to bring these changes into -stable.
> >> 
> 
> >I'm not sure this is a good idea. It's too desired a feature to not be widely
> >used and it's still very raw. Broken code will taint the whole release.
> 
> I hope that a month or two of alpha and beta testing will be enough to
> stabilize it.  Where did the the months alphember and betober (between
> September and October) go? :-).
> 

But there won't be a month or two more of alpha and beta testing for
2.1. It should stay in current. It's completely new and not currently
working code, it breaks all rules for 2.1 to bring it into stable.

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