cvs commit: src/sys/netgraph/bluetooth/drivers/bt3c ng_bt3c_pccard.c

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 26 10:13:52 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 26 October 2005 12:33 pm, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> John,
>
> [...]
>
> > Sorry about that, will be fixing it more cleanly.  BTW, does anyone know
> > why this driver allocates its softc manualn in its attach routine?
>
> ng_bt3c(4) is a netgraph device driver. there could be failures in
> both device part (i/o port, interrupts etc.) as well as in netgraph
> part (could not create node). so decided to do it this way. right now
> i can not recall any other reason :)

Even if netgraph fails then new-bus will still free it for you when attach 
returns ENXIO.  All you have to do is set the size in your driver_t and axe 
the malloc, free, and device_set_softc calls and you should be done.

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