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Subject: Re: kern/89362: Stale references to freed memory
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Don't set interrupt handlers in the probe routine.  That's not allowed
as you cannot count on side effects in the probe routine.  It might be
called multiple times.  softc is freed between probe and attach to
keep people from doing this.

The device_get_name*() calls definitely cannot be cached.

Warner