On 6/5/10 10:56 PM, Neal Hogan wrote:
I had not determined that. . . I did not see where somebody's HDDs
were interpreted differently.
Hi Neal,
It's not the HHD that is interpreted differently, it's the changes and
improvement to the controller that is better supported in 4.7 then before.
Look at the DMESG again and you will see it.
The way to think about it if I may suggest an analogy is like for
network cards. There is a hell of a lots of them that are n2000
compatible, but they are not all the same. Over time if you design a
driver that take advantage of some feature of your network card, then it
may well not be seen as n2000 compatible anymore but as it's real
hardware design.
So, before you had your controller using a compatible mode if you want
to access your drive, but then it was improve and you get additional
feature, speed and all.
Or would you have prefer that OpenBSD didn't work at all with your
controller, meaning not even offering you the possibility of using a
different driver that allow you to use your hardware. I suspect that you
wouldn't have not wanted the possibility of using your computer right?
Or am I wrong?
Your system benefit from improvement now that wasn't there before. So be
happy and use it instead of seeing it as a flaw and raise objection to it.
But you can also tell me to get lost and that's fine too. But that's the
logic you should take the improvement as.
There is always improvement to the system at each release.
Example of this, today I watch the presentation on mdocml and to be
honest I was very surprise to learn that the roff, troff, nroff, what
ever variations of *off was a real turn off! (;> It include no less the
700 files in base, 200K lines of code and around 50K line of C++ alone,
etc and obviously is all GPL. All sooner or later will go and is already
in the system now and much faster by a factor of 60 or so in speed and
<10K lines of code, meaning 200K down to 10K or 20 time smaller.
So, following your logic they shouldn't do these then?
I think it's much better to keep going and at that rate every
improvement like this reduce bugs, improve security and all. Even if
thee isn't any bug known yet, logic dictate that no matter what, less
code reduce the chances of bugs and all.
So, be happy that your system got better and do not need to be use in
compatible mode now if you want to thin about it that way.
If you keep complaining about improvement, well, you may one day not get
any at all, then what!? Be grateful for what you got and be happy that
your systen work better now then it was a few months ago.
Regards,
Daniel
