dev_lock() question

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200509291408.18098.jhb at FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:


>Actually, you would think that it could be initialized either via an early 
>SYSINIT() or in the init_mutexes() function in kern_mutex.c and thus not need 
>the early check and avoid penalizing dev_lock().
>
>phk, how early his dev_lock needed?

Far too early due to console madness (in syscons I belive).


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