6.0 Witness squawk

Hello,

I'm almost finished porting my AoE (ATA over Ethernet)
driver to 6.0 and have a question about a complaint witness
is making.

In general, is it ok to sleep with a mutex held?

Specifically, it works like this in the driver.
Each device struct has a mutex for guarding
operations on it.  Discovering devices is a two
step process.  First the device must respond to
an AoE Query command, then it must respond to
an ATA identify command.  On the response to
the latter, I grab the device mutex, examine
the response and call disk_alloc() and disk_create().

Both of these functions call malloc with M_WAITOK,
the latter triggers the witness message.

In my situation, I don't really mind if I sleep
with the mutex since I can't do any useful work
with the device anyway.

This does leave the possibility that the netisr
for AoE could sleep.

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Sam