Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:24:07 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rwatson@FreeBSD.org Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, alfred@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, glebius@FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.org, sam@errno.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c Message-ID: <20061202.122407.232930910.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20061202085757.H40536@fledge.watson.org> References: <20061130174257.GY32700@FreeBSD.org> <20061202020221.GW38808@elvis.mu.org> <20061202085757.H40536@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
:
: > * 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.
:
: You have been pointed to the USB stack rewrite for 7.x at least three times in
: the last 24 hours. Getting developers involved in reviewing and testing this
: work would be very useful.
I can't stress this reviewing part enough. The new code is very
different from the old code, and there's quite a bit of change to plow
through. The more eyes we have, the better. I've had mixed luck with
the new code myself, but mostly good luck.
Warner
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