svn commit: r283538 - head/sys/net80211
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue May 26 17:15:26 UTC 2015
On Monday, May 25, 2015 10:38:33 PM Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 07:18:16PM +0000, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> A> * kill M_WAITOK - some platforms just don't want you to use it
>
> Actually all functions called in device attach context or in
> syscall context should use M_WAITOK. This makes API more robust and
> simplifies code a lot.
>
> Can we achieve portability without losing this nice feature of
> FreeBSD?
I agree with this general policy. There are several places that currently
use M_NOWAIT (e.g. new-bus) that could safely use M_WAITOK instead in many
cases (if not always).
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John Baldwin
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