Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/scsipi

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:39:29PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> FreeBSD started out with MPSAFE and then went to NEEDS_GIANT as flags for the 
> drivers.  I'm with Matthew: patch the drivers that are broken (or not known 
> to be safe) and then you have a convenient thing to grep for when you want to 
> expand the drivers that are safe.  Much better that way, and it turned out to 
> be a big win in FreeBSD when we went from opt-in MPSAFE to out-out...

But we're still in the MPSAFE world, not yet at NEEDS_GIANT. Very few drivers
are MPSAFE in NetBSD, so almost all of them need to be patched.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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