dev_lock() question

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200509291455.59914.jhb at FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Thursday 29 September 2005 02:14 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <200509291408.18098.jhb at FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>> >Actually, you would think that it could be initialized either via an early
>> >SYSINIT() or in the init_mutexes() function in kern_mutex.c and thus not
>> > need the early check and avoid penalizing dev_lock().
>> >
>> >phk, how early his dev_lock needed?
>>
>> Far too early due to console madness (in syscons I belive).
>
>So would mutex_init() work?

Havn't tried.  It basically has to work right before the copyright
is printed.

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