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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:16:11 +0200
From:      Marko Zec <zec@fer.hr>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VIMAGE crashes on 9.x with hotplug net80211 devices
Message-ID:  <201210230916.11513.zec@fer.hr>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmomg_pSZ=ZdGNf9FB7Tx_K4DHMsCQsBuFVyojEHr0r1_Ew@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 22 October 2012 23:43:11 Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't mind tackling the net80211 clone detach path.
>
> I do mind how the default for hotplug is "argh, it doesn't work." :-)
>
> So I'd like to come up with something to fix the basic device detach,
> rather than having to actually add CURVNET_*() calls around each
> if_free() in each device detach method.

As already mentioned earlier, I don't terribly object if you'd place 
CURVNET_SET(ifp->if_vnet) inside if_free() and a limited number of similar 
functions, but I don't quite believe this is will enough to solve the 
device_detach() issue without having to touch any of the drivers...

Marko



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