Re: Network-related device drivers and MPSAFEty: status, and plans for 7.0

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 07/19/05

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    To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:50:33 +0200

    In message <42DCB694.7030007@gneto.com>, Martin Nilsson writes:
    >Robert Watson wrote:
    >> if_el Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink 3C501 devices.
    >> Mutxes present and exercised, not marked MPSAFE.
    >
    >This is an 8-bit ISA card that was a piss-poor-performer even when it
    >was new. Please don't waste developer resources on things like this!

    It was on the other hand one of the very first ethernet cards you
    could get your and on, and some of us still keep mementoes like
    that around :-)

    But I agree, that driver should just be EOL'ed. 

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