Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:12:09 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unit number allocation API Message-ID: <20041003.231209.04694657.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <48733.1096570677@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200409301409.25904.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <48733.1096570677@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: My personal guess is that driver->attach() and driver->probe() will
: never get out from Giant (I can't seriously see the benefits as
: being bigger than the effort) and therefore I think the problem of
: locking API's like this can be wholesale ignored for a very long
: time.
This is my guess as well. I have in my tree some locking assertions
to make sure this is the case, and hope to commit them soon.
Warner
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