Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:46:37 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled (was: 8.0 network stack MPsafety goals (fwd)) Message-ID: <483AF77D.3030006@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <5D4AF8D7-88A7-4197-A0FE-7CA992EE5F96@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080524111715.T64552@fledge.watson.org> <1211640498.1510.8.camel@localhost> <20080524165519.K9809@fledge.watson.org> <e7db6d980805241656q30193933hcd983b6322d02df8@mail.gmail.com> <20080525105726.O39741@fledge.watson.org> <5D4AF8D7-88A7-4197-A0FE-7CA992EE5F96@FreeBSD.org>
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Ade Lovett wrote: > It's all well and good to be able to say that the current release of the > kernel supports hardware that hasn't been used, other than in > idiosyncratic situations (yes, ahc(4), I'm looking at you) for 5+ years, > but it seems that we have an opportunity here to break out the Danish > Ax[tm] in anger, and do some heavy-duty culling before 8.0-REL. > Why does this argument on hardware support keep on coming up? For christ sake, every year some yahoo speaks up and declares that he knows what hardware should stay and what should go, and every year that yahoo gets educated on how counterproductive that is to the project. I'll just skip to the end of the recording and say, "NO". Scott
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