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Date:      Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:42:24 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ttydev_cdevsw has no d_purge
Message-ID:  <201208081942.24619.hselasky@c2i.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAJOYFBD4DxL8ZAeKDYZwtv2FaqcV0Taw%2BLES5nc6Ry_t%2BuzfOw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20120801160323.GN2676@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <201208081827.53824.hselasky@c2i.net> <CAJOYFBD4DxL8ZAeKDYZwtv2FaqcV0Taw%2BLES5nc6Ry_t%2BuzfOw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 08 August 2012 19:24:18 Ed Schouten wrote:
> 2012/8/8 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>:
> >> I have a question regarding the changed fragment of code. Why don't you
> >> use unr(9) KPI to manage unit numbers ?
> > 
> > Probably I could, but right now the unr interface doesn't support pending
> > unit free which I need for other reasons, see below.
> 
> What does `pending unit free' mean? I also would prefer it if you used
> unr(9) -- not just here, but across the entire USB stack.

It is like a drain state, where a unit is collected for free, and then 
committed to free state when the tsw_free() is called. In the [unlocked] time 
in between the unit cannot be re-used.

--HPS



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