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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

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