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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 09:14:57 -0700
From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: polling(4) and rl(4)
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:31:17PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
...
> Do you mean it would be okay if I just trimmed the polling support
> in rl(4) to the RX part only?  I actually considered doing this,
> just wasn't sure if it is good.  ;)

maybe it's a bit tricky. You'd have to disable rx interrupts,
but keep the tx ones... which makes the call to poll_register
check a few more conditions.

	cheers
	luigi
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ruslan Ermilov
> ru@FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD committer