Subject: Re: Explanation of the EBUSY error on device opening, bugs to fix
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/28/2001 15:38:36
> [...EBUSY...chrtoblk...]
> Next bug: I was reading entry #61 of the table, whereas there are
> only 59 entries on macppc.
I found this the hard way myself, once. Now, one of the things I do
when I start playing with a port is to do something like this to
chrtoblk (this is extracted directly from my private patch for
sys/arch/sparc/sparc/conf.c):
@@ -429,6 +461,8 @@
{
int blkmaj;
+ if ((sizeof(chrtoblktbl)/sizeof(chrtoblktbl[0])) < nchrdev)
+ panic("chrtoblktbl too small for cdevsw");
if (major(dev) >= nchrdev)
return (NODEV);
blkmaj = chrtoblktbl[major(dev)];
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