On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Robert Watson wrote:
Remove IFF_NEEDSGIANT, a compatibility infrastructure introduced in FreeBSD 5.x to allow network device drivers to run with Giant despite the network stack being Giant-free. This significantly simplifies calls into ioctl() on network interfaces, especially in the multicast code, as well as eliminates deferred invocation of interface if_start routines.Disable the build on device drivers still depending on IFF_NEEDSGIANT as they no longer compile. They will be removed in a few weeks if they haven't been made MPSAFE in that time. Disabled drivers: if_ar if_axe if_aue if_cdce if_cue if_kue if_ray if_rue if_rum if_sr if_udav if_ural if_zyd Drivers that were already disabled because of tty changes: if_ppp if_sl
On or around 1 April, I will remove these drivers from the repository if they haven't been updated. Most of the above drivers have already been replaced by the usb2 drivers of similar names. The only real exceptions are if_ar and if_sr, which currently don't have MPSAFE variants but were still being compiled.
Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
