WARNING: Device "kbd" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 13.0.

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 1:03 PM Hartmann, O. <o.hartmann at walstatt.org>
wrote:

> Running FreeBSD CURRENT on a USB only platform with a customised kernel, I
> see this
> message all the time I reboot or log console messages:
>
> [...]
> WARNING: Device "kbd" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD
> 13.0.
>
> Where does this message come from and what is causing the warning? I tried
> to identify
> and eliminate this message, but it seems to be stuck with the USB
> device/keyboard
> attached to the system.
>
> Any hint?
>

to eliminate the message, kbd needs to be rewritten to not use giant.

It will not be deleted before 13. I'll change the message to 14.

Warner