From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 1 15:29:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C24810656CA for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:29:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thompsa@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pele.citylink.co.nz (pele.citylink.co.nz [202.8.44.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2AE8FC13 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:29:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thompsa@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pele.citylink.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFD4FFA4; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 04:29:14 +1300 (NZDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at citylink.co.nz Received: from pele.citylink.co.nz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pele.citylink.co.nz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id i7RuduEIu9v7; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 04:29:10 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from citylink.fud.org.nz (unknown [202.8.44.45]) by pele.citylink.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 04:29:10 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by citylink.fud.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6B0321142F; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 04:29:10 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:29:10 -0800 From: Andrew Thompson To: Luke Dean Message-ID: <20090301152910.GB90301@citylink.fud.org.nz> References: <20090301043707.GA90301@citylink.fud.org.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of the axe driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:29:16 -0000 On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:22:38AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:40:02PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: >>> Has axe been phased out? Will there be another driver to support my >>> device when I decide to move to FreeBSD 8? Is there anything I can do to >>> help preserve support for this device? >> >> Im not sure what posts were saying it was going to be phased out but it >> isnt true and the hardware is very much supported. The driver now lives >> under a slighty different location of sys/dev/usb/net/if_axe.c >> > > There were a series of posts by Robert Watson titled > "HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed" > The latest one I received was on Feb 16 to current@freebsd.org. > > There's a very good chance that I'm not understanding what I'm reading, > but I interpreted it to mean that all network drivers that required GIANT > locking (axe among them) would be disabled in CURRENT starting March 1, > and removed entirely on April 1. > > Thank you for confirming that I misunderstood this. I can see how you could come to this conclusion :) The new driver under sys/dev/usb/net/if_axe.c is no longer a consumer of IFF_NEEDSGIANT (as with the test of the usb stack) so its off the chopping block. Andrew