This is a mostly mechanical and largely untested patch, so please test carefully if you have the necessary hardware. Kernel patch: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/disk.patch Man-page update: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/disk_man.patch Patch version: 2004-02-05.1 This patch changes the disk_*(9) API so that ownership of the "struct disk" is moved from the device drivers to GEOM. This removes a lot of trouble from the disk_destroy(9) handling, which should be robust with this patch. After this change the API works as follows: allocated struct disk with disk_alloc(), store pointer in softc. populate fields, including d_unit and d_flags which were previous arguments to disk_create(). call disk_create() with the pointer. call disk_destroy() to signal that the device has disappeared. NB: do not access struct disk in the driver anymore! return any outstanding requests with suitable error. At the same time: eliminate unused arguments from disk_create(9) Reverse sense of DISKFLAG_NOGIANT, to DISKFLAG_NEEDSGIANT. Two weeks review -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Thu Feb 05 2004 - 01:02:51 UTC
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