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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 2010 04:49:41 -0600
From:      Jason Harmening <jason.harmening@gmail.com>
To:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newbus locking?
Message-ID:  <20100208044941.1f22c7fa@CORONA>
In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10911251541o6943ead2ub7a8ab9ed0027896@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:41:09 +0100
Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 2009/11/25 Jason Harmening <jason.harmening@gmail.com>:
> > The newbus sxlock showed up briefly back in August (yay! no more
> > giant!), then went away for 8.0-RELEASE.  Will it be coming back to
> > HEAD sometime soon?
> > I have a driver that needs to lock the device tree and uses
> > __FreeBSD_version to determine whether to use the sxlock or Giant.
> 
> Yes, I expect it to be happening very soon (I hope in maximum one
> month).
> 
> Attilio
> 
> 

Is this still going to happen for 8.1? I don't mean to be a
pest, but I'm ready to push a driver update to ports, and I'll wait if
the newbus locking will be going in sometime in the next few weeks.

Thanks,
Jason


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