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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:30:16 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_conf.c 
Message-ID:  <19991213003016.E94F41CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>  of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:23:58 PST." <199912130023.QAA04379@mass.cdrom.com> 

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Mike Smith wrote:
> > peter       1999/12/12 08:34:44 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/kern             vfs_conf.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Put on asbestos suit and put a splcam() around the 'Mounting root from..'
> >   message to stop it splitting.  Every single scsi machine I've seen seems
> >   to reliably collide with this and it's rather annoying.
> 
> Should probably be something more like splimp(), since there's no 
> guarantee that you're not going to get a different interrupt-masked 
> device doing the same sort of thing.

splimp is no relation to the disk interrupts..  We don't have a heirarchy of
priorities like other unixen, each mask stands alone.  splhigh() covers it all
but that's really overdoing it.

Cheers,
-Peter




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