Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:53:18 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reminder: non-mpsafetty drivers to be connected on Sunday Message-ID: <64491.1217595198@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:48:45 %2B1000." <20080801124845.GZ1359@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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In message <20080801124845.GZ1359@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>, Peter Jeremy writes : >On 2008-Aug-01 13:40:53 +0200, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: >>One of the most important things I forgot to mention: I've attached the >>patch I'm going to commit. Comments on the patch are very welcome! > >This patch just disconnects the majority of the serial drivers from >the build. Whilst I support the aim of making the TTY subsystem >MPSAFE, as I've previously stated, IMO, just disconnecting everything >is not the way forward. I got a syntax error on this email Peter, didn't you mean to write: "Great work Ed, let me send you some patches" A MPSAFE tty subsystem is infinitely more important than any particular non-console tty driver. If FreeBSD should have digi(4) support in the future somebody should spend some quality with the driver, instead of stopping Ed from making much necessary progress. -- 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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