Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:00:16 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, attilio@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, kostikbel@gmail.com, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r192535 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <1689.1242921616@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 2009 08:54:01 MST." <4A157919.7040103@samsco.org>
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In message <4A157919.7040103@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: >I would also love to have destroy_dev() and make_dev() be locking-neutral. As far as I know, there is nothing preventing that any more. The current state of affairs still reflects a reality from before SMPng entirely changed what "kernel locking" meant. I would also support merging CDEV notification into devd(8), it does not make much sense to have different mechanisms. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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