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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 21:59:16 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>, Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, wc.bulte@chello.nl, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>
Subject:   Re: vn.ko load/unload/mount = panic 
Message-ID:  <1385.958334356@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 May 2000 12:53:32 PDT." <200005141953.MAA09495@mass.cdrom.com> 

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In message <200005141953.MAA09495@mass.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
>> In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0005141328380.78621-100000@localhost>, Nick Hibma wri
>> tes:
>> >
>> >Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think you actually have to
>> >disassociate any dev_t's from the driver (by clearing the si_drv[12]
>> >fields) because we call destroy_dev and cdevsw_remove, so any later uses
>> >of dev_t's get an error because the device has gone away.
>> 
>> destroy_dev will clear the necessary fields in a dev_t, cdevsw_remove
>> will not.
>
>Is it correct to assume that destroy_dev() still isn't working correctly? 
>(disk_destroy certainly isn't).

disk_destroy is different from destroy_dev, and I'll get to it real soon.

>Also, while you still can, that should be dev_destroy().

No, because the corresponding is called make_dev().

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