Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:45:26 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reminder: non-mpsafetty drivers to be connected on Sunday Message-ID: <64677.1217598326@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:26:24 %2B1000." <20080801132624.GG1359@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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In message <20080801132624.GG1359@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>, Peter Jeremy writes : >OTOH, a piece of middle-ware that doesn't work with the underlying >hardware drivers makes that hardware useless. MPSAFE is probably more >important than any particular non-console driver but Ed is talking >about disconnecting almost every non-console TTY driver. And I'm right behind him. If digi(4) is important, somebody with hardware will fix it, if it isn't important it will not be fixed, and good riddance. I think you are being unreasonable, and I'll point you at an old post I made, rather than rehash the arguments again: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1863154+0+archive/2002/freebsd-current/20021006.freebsd-current Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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