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Cc: George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: aio in GENERIC?
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On Monday, July 30, 2012 3:27:31 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 30/07/2012 16:31 John Baldwin said the following:
> > On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:43:42 am George Neville-Neil wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> I was wondering why aio is not yet in GENERIC.  Now that it's properly
> >> locked and all.
> > 
> > GENERIC does have it as a module so 'kldload aio' or 'aio_load=YES' in
> > loader.conf works for folks who need it.
> > 
> 
> The same could be said about many other drivers that are in GENERIC _kernel_.
> So, what was your point? :-)

I don't think aio was out of GENERIC because it wasn't locked IIRC, just that
it had few users.  Is there any popular software that uses it?

-- 
John Baldwin