HEADSUP: disk_*(9) API change mega-patch

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:02:47 +0100
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

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Received on Thu Feb 05 2004 - 01:02:51 UTC

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