Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:29:10 -0800 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> To: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of the axe driver? Message-ID: <20090301152910.GB90301@citylink.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903010114210.59605@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902281923520.58576@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> <20090301043707.GA90301@citylink.fud.org.nz> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903010114210.59605@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
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On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:22:38AM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:40:02PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: >>> Has axe been phased out? Will there be another driver to support my >>> device when I decide to move to FreeBSD 8? Is there anything I can do to >>> help preserve support for this device? >> >> Im not sure what posts were saying it was going to be phased out but it >> isnt true and the hardware is very much supported. The driver now lives >> under a slighty different location of sys/dev/usb/net/if_axe.c >> > > There were a series of posts by Robert Watson titled > "HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed" > The latest one I received was on Feb 16 to current@freebsd.org. > > There's a very good chance that I'm not understanding what I'm reading, > but I interpreted it to mean that all network drivers that required GIANT > locking (axe among them) would be disabled in CURRENT starting March 1, > and removed entirely on April 1. > > Thank you for confirming that I misunderstood this. I can see how you could come to this conclusion :) The new driver under sys/dev/usb/net/if_axe.c is no longer a consumer of IFF_NEEDSGIANT (as with the test of the usb stack) so its off the chopping block. Andrew
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