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Re: Locking strategy for device deletion (also see PR kern/48536)



   Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 18:28:11 +0800 (PHT)
   From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>

   Can anyone suggest a reliable way to ensure that a device-driver module 
   can be _really_ safely detached?

General approach:

1. Prevent new references (e.g., devsw_detach).

2. Wait for existing references to drain (or roll back with
devsw_attach if you don't want to wait, and fail with EBUSY).

3. Unload.


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