Network-related device drivers and MPSAFEty: status, and plans for 7.0

[Warner Losh]

From: Martin Nilsson <martin at gneto.com>
Subject: Re: Network-related device drivers and MPSAFEty: status, and plans for 7.0
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:15:16 +0200

> Robert Watson wrote:
> > if_el        Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink 3C501 devices.
> >         Mutxes present and exercised, not marked MPSAFE.
> 
> This is an 8-bit ISA card that was a piss-poor-performer even when it 
> was new. Please don't waste developer resources on things like this!

Well, if someone has a bunch of these that they need to keep working,
then we would welcome such a contribution.  However, I'd put it far
down on the list for someone that's just looking to do stuff.  We have
about 10 drivers in the tree that likely can be fixed by being deleted.

Warner