Re: Giant Locked drivers

Reply: Gary Jennejohn : "Re: Giant Locked drivers"
In reply to: Gary Jennejohn : "Re: Giant Locked drivers"
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From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:44:41 UTC

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 05:43, Gary Jennejohn <garyj@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> grep -i giant /var/run/dmesg.boot
> WARNING: Device "consolectl" is Giant locked and may be deleted before
> FreeBSD 14.0.

For vt consolectl is implemented in sys/dev/vt/vt_consolectl.c. It
implements two ioctls: CONS_GETVERS (which returns a constant version
number) and CONS_MOUSECTL (for mouse events, from e.g. moused). What
FreeBSD version are you running? NYC*BUG's dmesgd turns up consolectl
Giant warnings only for 12.x and 13.0.