svn commit: r192535 - head/sys/kern

[Scott Long]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 21 May 2009 6:11:02 pm Attilio Rao wrote:
>> At this point I wonder what's the purpose of maintaining the sleeping
>> version for such functions?
> 
> Actually, I still very much do not like using M_NOWAIT needlessly.  I would 
> much rather the solution for make_dev() be that the 1 or 2 places that need 
> to do it with a mutex held instead queue a task to do the actual make_dev() 
> in a taskqueue when no locks are held.  This is basically what 
> destroy_dev_sched() is doing.  Perhaps a make_dev_sched() with a similar 
> callback to be called on completion would be better.  Having a device driver 
> do all the work to setup the hardware only to fail to create a node in /dev 
> so that userland can actually use it is pretty rediculous and useless.
> 

It's a lot easier for me to handle a failure of make_dev in CAM than it 
is to decouple the call to it.  Please don't dictate policy.

Scott