HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed (was: Re: Wiki page for non-MPSAFE network stack de-orbit scheduling)

[Robert Watson]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> 16 February 2009	HEADS UP to lists (this e-mail)
>> 01 March 2009		Disable build of all IFF_NEEDSGIANT drivers in 8.x
>
> Slightly delayed while USB NDIS was sorted out, I will be moving ahead with 
> disabling the build of all IFF_NEEDSGIANT drivers in HEAD later today.

This patch is now committed; while I've done build testing (etc) there's 
always a chance of problems -- please drop me an e-mail if I missed something.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


>
>> 01 April 2009		Remove all IFF_NEEDSGIANT drivers from 8.x
>
> And this date is probably going to remain about the same.
>
> Anyone who is interested is welcome to step in and update/fix drivers on the 
> removal path at any time, and drivers can also be restored later easily if 
> drivers are updated outside the tree as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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