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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:21:39 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kldunload DIAGNOSTIC idea... 
Message-ID:  <79980.1090401699@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:10:07 BST." <200407211010.08159.dfr@nlsystems.com> 

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In message <200407211010.08159.dfr@nlsystems.com>, Doug Rabson writes:

>The original intention was that drivers use the 
>device_busy()/device_unbusy() counter to handle these things. In some 
>cases, just calling device_busy() from fooopen() and device_unbusy() 
>from fooclose() is sufficient.

That is not enough.  All methods in cdevsw, and things not in cdevsw
(clone handlers, call backs, etc etc) needs to refcount.

I have a lot of this working in a tree here, and will commit it once
I have gone over it a few more times.

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