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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2001 16:40:39 +0100 (BST)
From:      <n_hibma@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_disk.c
Message-ID:  <20010528163852.X96112-100000@henny.webweaving.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105282255010.2091-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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In my case I do use devfs, but it isn't mounted through fstab, but
implicitly by init it seems.

$ mount | grep devfs
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)


Nick


> > Reverting this commit avoids the panic I just mailed you. No idea why.
> >
> > Anything you want me to try to look into this? Little problem is that I
> > don't have a serial console and the panic happens before dumpdev is set.
>
> This may be related to rev.1.38 of subr_disk.c breaking most disk devices
> in the non-devfs case.  Their devsw() is 0 so spec_open() returns ENXIO.
> Places that don't check for a null devsw() would just panic.  I think
>
> Bruce
>
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> > > phk         2001/05/24 13:27:17 PDT
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/kern             subr_disk.c
> > >   Log:
> > >   Don't take the detour around devsw() to find out if the proto-cdevsw
> > >   is already initialized.
> > >
> > >   Revision  Changes    Path
> > >   1.38      +2 -4      src/sys/kern/subr_disk.c
> > >
> > >   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/subr_disk.c?r1=1.37&r2=1.38&cvsroot=freebsd
>

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