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From: "Axel S. Gruner" <axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de>
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Subject: device polling on SMP box
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Hi.

I am just wondering why "options DEVICE_POLLING" is not possible with
a SMP-Kernel.
Well, i know that there is a workaround with
"/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_poll.c" which works perfectly building a SMP
Kernel with polling. 
My question is, are there any known problems with SMP+polling or why is
it not possible by default? 

asg