Bogus hipoint driver thread

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 9 08:35:38 PST 2004


Richard Coleman wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
>> I have no hipoint controller, yet when I shut down I see:
>>
>> Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `hpt_wt' to stop...done
>>
>> Why ?
> 
> 
> I think it turned up on 5-stable about the time that Scott merged the 
> highpoint raid driver.  I'm seeing that thread as well.  At the time of 
> the merge, I didn't change anything on my system other than the merge of 
> the highpoint line in GENERIC into my own kernel config file.
> 
> Richard Coleman
> rcoleman at criticalmagic.com

It's a harmless thread.  It'll be removed from the current global scope
in the future.

Scott


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