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In message: <20061202085757.H40536@fledge.watson.org>
            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