Re: ttydev_cdevsw has no d_purge

From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:51:55 +0300
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:42:24PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2012 19:24:18 Ed Schouten wrote:
> > 2012/8/8 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky_at_c2i.net>:
> > >> I have a question regarding the changed fragment of code. Why don't you
> > >> use unr(9) KPI to manage unit numbers ?
> > > 
> > > Probably I could, but right now the unr interface doesn't support pending
> > > unit free which I need for other reasons, see below.
> > 
> > What does `pending unit free' mean? I also would prefer it if you used
> > unr(9) -- not just here, but across the entire USB stack.
> 
> It is like a drain state, where a unit is collected for free, and then 
> committed to free state when the tsw_free() is called. In the [unlocked] time 
> in between the unit cannot be re-used.

Still, why do you need such intermediate state ? You cannot reuse the unit
number while it is in the 'pending free' still, AFAIU.

Received on Wed Aug 08 2012 - 19:52:05 UTC

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