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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:32:48 +0200
From:      Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
To:        gnn@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Special schedulers, one CPU only kernel, one only userland
Message-ID:  <20050819083248.GA1769@unixpages.org>
In-Reply-To: <m27jeiisq3.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
References:  <42F9ECF2.8080809@freebsd.org> <200508181023.05929.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050818095546.A91965@xorpc.icir.org> <200508181312.21512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050818190625.GA28174@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <m27jeiisq3.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>

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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:08:20AM +0900, gnn@freebsd.org wrote:
> At Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:06:25 -0700,
> brooks wrote:
> > Certainly we need assurance that nothing is going to try and touch
> > the driver before the driver's detach function calls if_free.  After
> > if_free returns, no aspect of the driver should touch the ifnet.  Other
> > parts of the networking system might still have refrence to it should we
> > end up with a refcouting scheme where the final free of ifnets comes
> > some time later.  All refrences to the softc need to be pruged prior to
> > exit from the detach routine.
> >=20
>=20
> Documentatoin comment.  When are we going to write a driver writer's
> handbook?
>=20

Well, Jochen Kunz has already written a nice guide for NetBSD... :-)

- Christian

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