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Cc: George Neville-Neil <gnn@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: aio in GENERIC?
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on 30/07/2012 22:58 John Baldwin said the following:
> 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?
> 

Honestly - I don't know.  But it's in POSIX ("REALTIME"); qemu and firefox used
to depend on it (to require it, actually), not sure how about now.
Besides, if it's George who is going to be the user then the argument is moot :-)
-- 
Andriy Gapon