Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:30:55 -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: <20061202023055.GX38808@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20061202020221.GW38808@elvis.mu.org> References: <200611301502.kAUF22lU076210@repoman.freebsd.org> <456F0B71.3050604@errno.com> <20061130172634.GC75179@rambler-co.ru> <20061130174257.GY32700@FreeBSD.org> <20061202020221.GW38808@elvis.mu.org>
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* Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> [061201 18:03] 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.
s/thead/THREAT/
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