Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:50:33 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Network-related device drivers and MPSAFEty: status, and plans for 7.0 Message-ID: <1593.1121763033@phk.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:15:16 %2B0200." <42DCB694.7030007@gneto.com>
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In message <42DCB694.7030007@gneto.com>, Martin Nilsson writes: >Robert Watson wrote: >> if_el Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink 3C501 devices. >> Mutxes present and exercised, not marked MPSAFE. > >This is an 8-bit ISA card that was a piss-poor-performer even when it >was new. Please don't waste developer resources on things like this! It was on the other hand one of the very first ethernet cards you could get your and on, and some of us still keep mementoes like that around :-) But I agree, that driver should just be EOL'ed. -- 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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