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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2007 17:21:48 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        mjacob@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/mpt mpt.c mpt.h mpt_cam.c mpt_cam.h mpt_pci.c mpt_raid.c
Message-ID:  <4648EF0C.7050906@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070514154010.E88263@ns1.feral.com>
References:  <200705052018.l45KIPLJ083350@repoman.freebsd.org> <464A305A.1040902@thekeelecentre.com> <20070514154010.E88263@ns1.feral.com>

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mjacob@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Matt Jacob wrote:
>>> mjacob      2007-05-05 20:18:25 UTC
>>>
>>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>>
>>>   Modified files:
>>>     sys/dev/mpt          mpt.c mpt.h mpt_cam.c mpt_cam.h mpt_pci.c 
>>> mpt_raid.c   Log:
>>>   Make this driver MP safe and still be a multi-release driver.
>>>     Obtained from:  99% of the work done by Scott Long.
>>>   MFC after:      3 days
>>>
>> Are there still plans to MFC this work?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard
>>
> 
> Yes, but in no great hurry because, it won't affect RELENG_6 because 
> RELENG_6 hasn't got the rest of the MP safe CAM stuff.
> 
> 

And I'd like to merge back the MPSAFE CAM work once it's had a little 
longer to mature and stabilize.  I can do the merge so that the API
doesn't change for non-MPSAFE SIMs, but there is no way to avoid an
ABI change for SIMs.  Luckily, this only affects kernel modules, not
userland apps.

Scott




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