HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled (was: 8.0 network stack MPsafety goals (fwd))

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 05:34:09AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Ade Lovett, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> It's all well and good to be able to say that the current release of
> the kernel supports hardware that hasn't been used, other than in
> idiosyncratic situations (yes, ahc(4), I'm looking at you) for 5+
> years, [...]

Neat, I didn't know I was idiosyncratic.

% uname -sr
FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT

% grep ^ahc /var/run/dmesg.boot
ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xf8001000-0xf8001fff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci0
ahc0: [ITHREAD]
ahc1: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem 0xf8002000-0xf8002fff irq 16 at device 13.0 on pci0
ahc1: [ITHREAD]
ahc2: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x1800-0x18ff mem 0xf8003000-0xf8003fff irq 17 at device 13.1 on pci0
ahc2: [ITHREAD]

(all 3 in use)


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