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Date:      Wed, 19 May 2004 17:14:20 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Lukas Ertl <le@freebsd.org>
Cc:        geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unloading GEOM classes 
Message-ID:  <19867.1084979660@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 May 2004 16:57:10 %2B0200." <20040519165626.W4275@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> 

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In message <20040519165626.W4275@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes:
>Hello fellow GEOM hackers,
>
>I'd like to get the discussion about unloading GEOM classes rolling again,
>and I'm really pleading for a change of the current code in geom_subr.c.

We need to get this done right and stop hacking it.

A major part of the problem is that come into the unloading with Giant
held so we are forced to use the event-queue to do Giant isolation
for us.

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