Unloading GEOM classes

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:43:28PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
+> In message <20040519165626.W4275 at pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes:
+> >Hello fellow GEOM hackers,
+> >
+> >I'd like to get the discussion about unloading GEOM classes rolling again,
+> >and I'm really pleading for a change of the current code in geom_subr.c.
+> 
+> OK, I just checked with peter@ and he belives that we can simply do
+> a DROP_GIANT() ... PICKUP_GIANT() in the g_modevent() and avoid the
+> need for the eventqueue there.
+> 
+> Can somebody try that ?

Here is the patch:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/g_unload_class.patch

UNTESTED. Lukas, could you try it and see if it fix your problem.
The whole trick could a g_waitidle() after calling destroy_geom method.

BTW. We should really commit g_waitidle_lock() version, it will be useful
here too:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/g_waitidle_lock.patch

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
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