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

Ade Lovett wrote:
> 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, 
> but it seems that we have an opportunity here to break
out the Danish 
> Ax[tm] in anger, and do some heavy-duty culling before
8.0-REL.
> 

Why does this argument on hardware support keep on coming
up?  For 
christ sake, every year some yahoo speaks up and declares
that he
knows what hardware should stay and what should go, and
every year
that yahoo gets educated on how counterproductive that is to
the
project.  I'll just skip to the end of the recording and
say, "NO".

Scott
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On May 26, 2008, at 10:46 , Scott Long wrote:
> I'll just skip to the end of the recording and say,
"NO".

I wasn't aware that Web 2.0 did away with implied
<sarcasm></sarcasm>  
tags, not forgetting mode(tongue, cheek), etc.. etc..

Ah well.

-aDe

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