USB2 patches
Hans Petter Selasky
hselasky at c2i.net
Sun Feb 1 10:35:09 PST 2009
Hi Warner,
On Sunday 01 February 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20090201175021.GA32503 at citylink.fud.org.nz>
>
> Andrew Thompson <thompsa at freebsd.org> writes:
> The only way that a 'deferred attach' makes sense is
> if the ifnet and other external resources are setup as part of
> that deferred attach. That way, you don't have the NULL pointer issue.
That was what the initial code did.
>
> However, doing that introduces races with devd, which are a pita to
> cope with... Even without deferring the setting up if ifnet, you have
> races with devd if you defer things in attach that can be hard to cope
> with in the code.
No, not if the ifnet attach is deferred too.
My conclusion is: Do not make match rules for "rumX/uralX/zydX", instead match
for the IFNET event in devd.conf.
devctl_notify("IFNET", ifp->if_xname, "ATTACH", NULL);
--HPS
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