On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

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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.

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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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Guennadi Liakhovetski