From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 20:23:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A7D16A4DE; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:23:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E15A43D78; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:23:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie ([134.226.81.10] helo=maths.tcd.ie) by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 25 Jul 2006 21:23:12 +0100 (BST) To: Poul-Henning Kamp In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:12:13 -0000." <11815.1153858333@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Request-Do: Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:23:11 +0100 From: David Malone Message-ID: <200607252123.aa75409@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, "Christian S.J. Peron" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Sam Leffler , Jung-uk Kim Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:23:15 -0000 > I'm not sure I know what you mean by "trivial timecounter", but the > only reason we don't have a way to deregister a timecounter yet is > that so far I'm probably the only one who have ever need it :-) I was thinking about this recently too actually, as I was going to see how good the 64 bit counter on ath cards was in comparison to other things that were available. I'm not sure how much complexity a timecounter that could vanish at any moment would introduce - I didn't get that far yet. David.