Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 08:03:59 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, current@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>, net@FreeBSD.org, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled Message-ID: <51989.1211875439@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 May 2008 00:45:31 MST." <483BBC1B.6040905@elischer.org>
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In message <483BBC1B.6040905@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: >However the line discipline was a very convenient place for netgraph >to hook in without leaving the kernel. If you can supply an equally >effective way to hook into a serial device in such a way that it >appears to be a source/sink of bits then I don't care about >line disciplins, but until you have a suggested replacement then leave >them alone. There are MANY people using mpd with the netgraph ppp >moduel hooked directly to the serial port via the netgraph line >discipline. What exact value of "MANY" are we talking about here, and do you have any evidence that the systems in question will be updated to FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE or later ? If, contrary to my expectation, that you can show a real market here, then we should make a better interface than linedisc for such hooks into serial ports. -- 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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