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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:51:55 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ttydev_cdevsw has no d_purge
Message-ID:  <20120808215155.GP2676@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <201208081942.24619.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <20120801160323.GN2676@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <201208081827.53824.hselasky@c2i.net> <CAJOYFBD4DxL8ZAeKDYZwtv2FaqcV0Taw%2BLES5nc6Ry_t%2BuzfOw@mail.gmail.com> <201208081942.24619.hselasky@c2i.net>

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On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:42:24PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> 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 ?
> > >=20
> > > Probably I could, but right now the unr interface doesn't support pen=
ding
> > > unit free which I need for other reasons, see below.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> It is like a drain state, where a unit is collected for free, and then=20
> committed to free state when the tsw_free() is called. In the [unlocked] =
time=20
> in between the unit cannot be re-used.

Still, why do you need such intermediate state ? You cannot reuse the unit
number while it is in the 'pending free' still, AFAIU.

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