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Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: MTX_DEF versus MTX_SPIN
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on 03/11/2010 19:11 Kostik Belousov said the following:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:04:13AM -0700, mdf@freebsd.org wrote:
>> Is there any documentation on best practices for writing a FreeBSD driver?
> Not that I am aware of. You can read locking(9) in HEAD to get the answer
> on your question about spin mutexes.

BTW, I think that BUS_SETUP_INTR(9) contains the most up to date information on
interrupt handling piece of a driver.  Unlike e.g. ithread(9).

-- 
Andriy Gapon