On 23 October 2013 11:09, Alfred Perlstein <bri...@mu.org> wrote:
> Eh, having taken a stab at porting the bwl blob already, I would strongly >> oppose removing NDIS. If you do that I will just stop using my netbook >> with a Broadcom part altogether as I wouldn't be able to use it to try to >> test bwl changes. The NDIS thing is a bit hackish, but it is quite useful >> for a lot of folks. >> >> I have to agree. Deprecation != motivation. I can pull out examples of this not holding true: * all the giant locking in drivers * all the giant locking in VFS People did pop up and claim ownership of things they cared about. Some stuff died, some stuff didn't. There was enough of a motivation by us to kill giant off in these pathways so things could continue to evolve. We didn't leave the GIANT crutch in forever. -adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
