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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2017 11:41:17 -0700
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r322465 - in head: share/man/man9 sys/kern sys/sys
Message-ID:  <CAG6CVpVeqpn8fOi47V0YTskznYcKV4xaWRHTTKdF9zkx9rKjfQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201708131810.v7DIAOYi094566@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201708131810.v7DIAOYi094566@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: ian
> Date: Sun Aug 13 18:10:24 2017
> New Revision: 322465
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/322465
>
> Log:
>   Add config_intrhook_oneshot(): schedule an intrhook function and unregister
>   it automatically after it runs.
>
>   The config_intrhook mechanism allows a driver to stall the boot process
>   until device(s) required for booting are available, by not allowing system
>   inits to proceed until all intrhook functions have been unregistered.
>   Virtually all existing code simply unregisters from within the hook function
>   when it gets called.
>
>   This new function makes that common usage more convenient. Instead of
>   allocating and filling in a struct, passing it to a function that might (in
>   theory) fail, and checking the return code, now a driver can simply call
>   this cannot-fail routine, passing just the intrhook function and its arg.
>
>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11963

Reviewed by: cem, bcr (manpages)



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