Re: detaching timecounters (patch)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:29:59AM -0600, David Young wrote:
> I'm writing a device detachment routine for geodecntr(4), which provides
> a timecounter.  I've come up with the attached routine for detaching
> a timecounter.  Is it ok?

I don't think this is correct, but I have to think about all corner
cases to tell you the specific problems. One think to keep in mind is
that time counters are lazily locked at the moment, so you have to make
sure that no kernel thread was suspended within a timecounter call.

Joerg