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In message: <3bbf2fe10905211511g53defb6cmac45fc2469cc64f@mail.gmail.com>
            Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> writes:
: At this point I wonder what's the purpose of maintaining the sleeping
: version for such functions?

As John explained, destroy_dev() needs to sleep to flush all the
threads out of the driver callbacks.

Warner