On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>
> > Ok, thanks for the explanation Alan. So, there's no technical argument,
> > just "being nice to the users", and add a new driver, which we know we'll
> > have to remove soon, thus having to persuade its users, who by that time
>
> Define "soon". :-)
"Soon" in this case means, we NOW have a replacement driver and we aim at
deprecating the IDE driver in its favour.
> > will get used to it and will not want to invest money into switching to
> > another one...
>
> Invest into what if the drivers are functionally identical?
For example, into porting user space (replace hdx with sdx). And even
switching to a "functionally identical" driver requires a new complete
testing cycle... No, I won't be in that situation, so, it's not my money
I'm worrying about. But I know there are companies for whom releasing a
new version of /etc/fstab is a considerable expense... Not that I cared
about them anyway.
Thanks
Guennadi
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