HEADSUP: disk_*(9) API change mega-patch

[Lukas Ertl]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> This is a mostly mechanical and largely untested patch, so please test
> carefully if you have the necessary hardware.
>
> Kernel patch:
> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/disk.patch
> [...]
> This patch changes the disk_*(9) API so that ownership of the "struct
> disk" is moved from the device drivers to GEOM.  This removes a lot
> of trouble from the disk_destroy(9) handling, which should be robust
> with this patch.

Will this be a solution for the deadlock we were discussing lately on
geom@?

regards,
le

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