Re: HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled (was: 8.0 network stack MPsafety goals (fwd))

From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:36:45 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

>> Here's the revised list of drivers that will have their build disabled in 
>> the next week (subject to an appropriate block of time for me):
>
> Is this list supposed to be complete (including dependencies)? bktr uses 
> some I2C stuff and cxm (in ports) too.

As far as I'm aware, this list is complete.  I compiled it by identifying all 
network device drivers that set (or may set) the IFF_NEEDSGIANT.  With respect 
to i2c, this refers *only* to the if_ic.c network device driver, and not the 
other services associated with i2c, so bktr and other i2c consumers should be 
unaffected.  I'm not familiar with cxm so can't comment on that.  If you are 
aware of any other in-tree network device drivers that use IFF_NEEDSGIANT and 
aren't on the list, please do let me know.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Received on Mon Jun 30 2008 - 10:36:46 UTC

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