Hi Whilst starting work on porting the Linux Broadcom 440x 10/100 driver I've come across a bit of a problem with kldunload and its interaction with device xxx_detach. I'm cribbing code from if_bge.c and if_rl.c (picked at random). if_rl.c uses a mutex for locking the softc. If the rl_detach routine is called twice (for example failing attach and then kldunload) the mutex gets destroyed twice - leading to a panic with witness. Is there a safe sequence of mutex checking etc. to avoid killing the machine in this way? At present I'm assuming that if the mutex is not initialised then _detach doesn't need to clean as nothing could have been set up, or it has already been cleaned. DuncanReceived on Mon May 26 2003 - 10:22:03 UTC
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