Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:46:52 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Subject: Re: Reminder: non-mpsafetty drivers to be connected on Sunday Message-ID: <64694.1217598412@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:01:39 -0400." <200808010901.39545.jhb@freebsd.org>
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In message <200808010901.39545.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes: >On Friday 01 August 2008 08:53:18 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> A MPSAFE tty subsystem is infinitely more important than any particular >> non-console tty driver. >> >> If FreeBSD should have digi(4) support in the future somebody should >> spend some quality with the driver, instead of stopping Ed from >> making much necessary progress. > >On the other hand, we didn't throw out half the NIC drivers when we did the >MPSAFE network stack locking either, we allowed for a transition that gave >time for individual drivers to be locked. First there are close to 10 years of difference in how relevant serial ports and ethernet interfaces are. Second, I think we could have saved if we had done just that :-) 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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