Re: Unit number allocation API

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:12:09 -0600 (MDT) · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:15 UTC

In message: <48733.1096570677_at_critter.freebsd.dk>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: My personal guess is that driver->attach() and driver->probe() will
: never get out from Giant (I can't seriously see the benefits as
: being bigger than the effort) and therefore I think the problem of
: locking API's like this can be wholesale ignored for a very long
: time.

This is my guess as well.  I have in my tree some locking assertions
to make sure this is the case, and hope to commit them soon.

Warner