Generic Kernel API

[Mark Linimon]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:20:14PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> My hope is that in the next year or so, things will settle down 
> significantly as we begin to flush the last of the non-MPSAFE drivers
> from the system, and reach a point where all device drivers can use
> consistent synchronization.

If we are working towards that, I'd like to see someone contact the
suppliers of the binary-only drivers and tell them that's where we're
heading.  IMHO we are starting to win back some 'mind-share' out there
in the real world with 6.0 and we should build on that momentum.

mcl