if_ef rotten

[Antony Mawer]

On 23/11/2006 10:55 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 
>> When trying to kldload if_ef (on yesterday CURRENT/amd64, with WITNESS 
>> and almost all debugging enabled), I got a lot of "malloc(M_WAITOK) of 
>> "XXX", forcing M_NOWAIT with the following non-sleepable locks held: 
>> ... ifnet ..."
>>
>> Is it rotten ? (No, I do not use it, just noted it when doing some 
>> other testing work).
> 
> There are three general classes of problems with if_ef:
...

If you are looking for any testers of if_ef-related work, we use it 
quite heavily (with nwfs and IPX), although my -CURRENT test machine is 
currently in pieces, so I haven't done any testing on -CURRENT just at 
the moment! If you need any additional information from a in-use 
environment, patches to be tested, etc, I'll volunteer...

--Antony