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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:06:06 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, julian@whistle.com
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, julian@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c kern_xxx.c subr_prf.c
Message-ID:  <199608200606.QAA12520@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> The broken method is no longer used and should never be used, so support
>> for it (cleanups, cleanup_set, executing the cleanups) should be deleted.

>I wasn't sure that some 3rd party wasn't using it in a proprietary 
>module so decided to make it NOISY for a while before deleting it..
>it'll go away..

Failing to compile or load (an lkm) is noisier and safer.

>(where to put it). I have started thinking about having some ordering
>e.g. similar to the SYSINIT ordering, maybe a couple of categories..
>the last of which would be shutting down raw devices.

I hope this isn't necessary.  SYSINIT provides more complications that
benefits.

Bruce


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