Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:02:21 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c Message-ID: <20061202020221.GW38808@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20061130174257.GY32700@FreeBSD.org> References: <200611301502.kAUF22lU076210@repoman.freebsd.org> <456F0B71.3050604@errno.com> <20061130172634.GC75179@rambler-co.ru> <20061130174257.GY32700@FreeBSD.org>
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* Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> [061130 09:46] wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:26:34PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> R> BTW, is if_{watchdog|timer} also dangerous for !MPSAFE drivers?
>
> It isn't. AFAIR, Robert promised to remove all !MPSAFE NIC
> drivers before RELENG_7.
Other than performance issues, what's the point of doing this?
To me that sounds like we'd lose all of usb ethernet as it
stands. I'm fine with fixing usb ethernet, but not under
some thread-model of developement.
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