Error checking for g_mod_event() and friends

Lukas Ertl l.ertl at univie.ac.at
Tue Jan 27 07:39:12 PST 2004


On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <20040127160001.N92925 at pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes:
> >
> >In the geom_vinum case I allocate the "main" vinum geom in the init
> >method, and this might fail.
> >
> >(Of course, this might not be the correct way to do it, but I couldn't
> >think of another way.)
>
> You're right, it isn't :-)
>
> You should never allocate anything until you first time taste a disk
> which looks like yours.

Ok, then how do I spawn a complete class from the tasting routine of
another class?

regards,
le

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