Quality of FreeBSD

[Mike Tancsa]

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