Re: [PATCH] Collapsing device_state_t with devinfo_state_t

Attilio Rao <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:02:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.new-bus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/11/9 Scott Long <[email protected]>:
> On Nov 8, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Attilio Rao wrote:
>>
>> This patch should collpase device_state_t with devinfo_state_t and
>> remove a bogus replication of this struct:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/devinfo.diff
>>
>> This patch breaks ABI so it cannot be MFC'ed (and it is not intended to
>> do).
>>
>
> Does this hinder FreeBSD 8 from ever getting a Giant-free newbus?

As foretold in several e-mails and threads, FreeBSD-8 has all the
needed support for Giant-free newbus, that's just an improvement I
couldn't let happen before because we had to maintain ABI stability
over the release process, but it doesn't compromise at all possibility
to MFC Giant-free newbus.

Attilio


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