Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:52:32 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <199809261652.KAA05259@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <7171.906791511@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In article <7171.906791511@critter.freebsd.dk> you wrote: >>>This is just the idea that is realized by SLICE. >> >>This is exactly the opposite of what is realized by SLICE. SLICE >>does the "mount" at a deep level of the drivers (in an interrupt >>handler). > > ...Which was one of the most wrong things about it. Whatever replaces it must be able to be notified of insertion and removal events from an interrupt context. It can simply queue the notification up to be processed by a process or thread, but subsystems like CAM which process command completions from an SWI need to be able to perform notifications from low level contexts. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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