In message <200808010901.39545.jhb_at_freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes: >On Friday 01 August 2008 08:53:18 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> A MPSAFE tty subsystem is infinitely more important than any particular >> non-console tty driver. >> >> If FreeBSD should have digi(4) support in the future somebody should >> spend some quality with the driver, instead of stopping Ed from >> making much necessary progress. > >On the other hand, we didn't throw out half the NIC drivers when we did the >MPSAFE network stack locking either, we allowed for a transition that gave >time for individual drivers to be locked. First there are close to 10 years of difference in how relevant serial ports and ethernet interfaces are. Second, I think we could have saved if we had done just that :-) Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Fri Aug 01 2008 - 11:46:54 UTC
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