On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:11:29 pm Adrian Chadd wrote: > 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.
Giant isn't dead yet. :) (And I've done a lot of the de-Gianting FWIW.) I don't consider ndis in the same camp. Often times there are vendors where datasheets, etc. are not obtainable, but a foo.sys + foo.inf is. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ 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"
