Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:02:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG> To: harti@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LOR in if_detach Message-ID: <20030410175703.O39446@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20030410150609.U1863@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200304101251.h3ACphHo021011@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> <20030410150609.U1863@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Harti Brandt wrote: > What would that lock do? I mean, which, if any, of the exported driver > functions would be called with that lock held? If we're sure that nobody will be caching our function pointers we can call another helper function before if_detach() that sets the function pointers to 'invalid' functions (that is, ones that return an error). -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever |
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030410175703.O39446>