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Date:      22 Jan 2002 10:38:58 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c if.h route.h rtsock.c src/share/man/man4 route.4 src/sbin/route route.c
Message-ID:  <xzpbsfmrah9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20020122110033.D78733@sunbay.com>
References:  <20020121103822.A16527@sunbay.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020121101217.69509A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20020121173406.A77567@sunbay.com> <20020121.085527.98102760.imp@village.org> <20020121183947.A83821@sunbay.com> <xzpbsfns97l.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020122110033.D78733@sunbay.com>

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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:08:46PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Could drivers that don't get asynchronous notification of media status
> > changes, poll the media status once a second?
> How this is better than polling media status of a single interested
> device from userland once a second?

1) simpler to implement in the kernel

2) you avoid polling devices that are capable of asynchronous
   notification

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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