HEADS UP: network locking work going on

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Tue Aug 19 21:09:27 PDT 2003


> Is there any consideration for running some hardware drivers with Giant
> while they are converted?

I have seen no issues so far mixing drivers w/ and w/o Giant.  But that 
won't be true once drivers stop inheriting Giant when entered "from the 
top".  It's not clear to me that it's any more work to lock drivers than to 
provide some sort of compatibility shims.  Regardless this won't be an 
issue for a while.

Mind you I am still tracking at least one nasty bug...

	Sam



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