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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:09:11 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: scsi drives left locked by shutdown
Message-ID:  <9610161909.AA09028@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610161849.LAA03445@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <326526E2.167EB0E7@whistle.com> <199610161849.LAA03445@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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<<On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:49:21 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said:

>> maybe a use for the at_shutdown() call?
>> At one stage in the Berkeley BSD 4.4 course there was discussion
>> of adding "shutdown" entries to cdevsw entries..

> I second the motion of adding "detach" routines... it's very necessary
> for rundown on pluggable hardware (which, by definition, is also
> unpluggable).  The driver needs to be able to "rundown" at any time.

This was, of course, one of the principal features of devconf, which
Poul-Henning ripped out some months ago without so much as a
by-your-leave and has yet to even discuss a replacement for.

-GAWollman

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