Re: boot panic on current(04.20)

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Gustau Perez wrote: Tracing pid 46 tid 100059 td 0xc76ced20 strcmp(0,c0d4b100,c77b,c77b037e,ea44ebe8,...) at strcmp+0x23 malloc_desc2type(c0d4b100,0,c0d4b8e7,912,,...) at malloc_desc2type+0x24 usb2_notify_addq(c0d4c056,c77b02f8,c77b037e,c772f420,2,...) at usb2

Re: USB support in NDIS -- IFF_NEEDSGIANT?

2009-03-13 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Weongyo Jeong wrote: As you know, I've been gradually working to eliminate all non-MPSAFE network device driver infrastructure for 8.0, having removed non-MPSAFE network protocol infrastructure in 7.0. In reviewing remaining drivers using IFF_NEEDSGIANT, I spotted this in

Re: USB devfs patch

2009-02-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote: Below is a patch from Rink Springer to change the new USB stack to use devfs device nodes. I have tested this with a usb mouse and I am hoping people with other devices can test too, in particular scanners (sane app) and lpt ports. This also remo

USB support in NDIS -- IFF_NEEDSGIANT?

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Watson
Dear all: As you know, I've been gradually working to eliminate all non-MPSAFE network device driver infrastructure for 8.0, having removed non-MPSAFE network protocol infrastructure in 7.0. In reviewing remaining drivers using IFF_NEEDSGIANT, I spotted this in the NDIS code: 718

Re: HEADSUP: urtw(4) to be committed soon

2009-01-19 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Weongyo Jeong wrote: I would like to commit urtw(4) driver for supporting Realtek's 8187L wireless chipset based on USB into HEAD by the end of the week if there are no objections. And the license of files would be as follows that AFAIK it's based on OpenBSD's template l

Re: HEADSUP new usb code coming in.

2008-08-19 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Maxim Sobolev wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: Q. Can we change the name from "usb2_" to my favorite name? A. No. This is for a short period, stop being so annoying. Why not just "usb_"? You can then leave it as is then avoiding violating POLA second

Re: Resend with subject: No more non-MPSAFE network device drivers, please!

2006-05-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 22 May 2006, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: We have also discussed requiring that all network device drivers in the system for 7.0 be able to operate MPSAFE. This runs into some issues due to non-MPSAFEty of some key device driver subsystems, including Firewire, USB, and the TTY subsystem.