HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <483BBC1B.6040905 at elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:

>However the line discipline was a very convenient place for netgraph 
>to hook in without leaving the kernel. If you can supply an equally
>effective way to hook into a serial device in such a way that it 
>appears to be a source/sink of bits then I don't care about
>line disciplins, but until you have a suggested replacement then leave 
>them alone. There are MANY people using mpd with the netgraph ppp 
>moduel hooked directly to the serial port via the netgraph line 
>discipline.

What exact value of "MANY" are we talking about here, and do you
have any evidence that the systems in question will be updated
to FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE or later ?

If, contrary to my expectation, that you can show a real market
here, then we should make a better interface than linedisc for
such hooks into serial ports.

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