Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:48:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XXX driver didn't initialize queue mtx
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101271246240.13274-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010127124149.O87569@canonware.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

Shouldn't ether_ifattach initialize the mutex? Or do expect all drivers to
initialize these prior to calling ether_ifattach?

Look- I just want to know what the people who put the check in *want*.....


> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:36:41PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, I suppose, I did find that... well, mainly I wanted the person who made
> > the change to actually broadcast to NIC maintainers what the expectations
> > were...
> 
> The code that prints these warnings out has existed for a while.  However,
> whoever added it made a bad assumption about the internals of the mutex
> implementation, so the code never got executed.  I "fixed" it last week, so
> the warnings get printed now.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
> 



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.21.0101271246240.13274-100000>