Re: Introducing localcount(9)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 16 May 2017, Chuck Silvers wrote:

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> > For the same reason I was not able to embed the struct localcount directly
> > within the struct device.
>
> but you did do that:
>
> struct device {
> ...
>        struct localcount dv_localcnt;  /* reference counter */
> };

Sorry, typo.  I should have said that the struct {b,c}devsw are const, 
so not able to embed the localcount directly, nor able to embed a 
pointer to the localcount.  The struct device is not (generally) const, 
so it did not have the same constraints when embedding its localcount.

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