svn commit: r208346 - stable/8/share/man/man9
Konstantin Belousov
kib at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 20 09:41:14 UTC 2010
Author: kib
Date: Thu May 20 09:41:13 2010
New Revision: 208346
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/208346
Log:
MFC r207730:
Document MAKEDEV_NOWAIT flag for make_dev_credf(9).
Modified:
stable/8/share/man/man9/make_dev.9
Directory Properties:
stable/8/share/man/man9/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/8/share/man/man9/make_dev.9
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/share/man/man9/make_dev.9 Thu May 20 09:39:01 2010 (r208345)
+++ stable/8/share/man/man9/make_dev.9 Thu May 20 09:41:13 2010 (r208346)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 28, 2008
+.Dd May 6, 2010
.Os
.Dt MAKE_DEV 9
.Sh NAME
@@ -133,9 +133,18 @@ The following values are currently accep
.Pp
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
MAKEDEV_REF reference the created device
+MAKEDEV_NOWAIT do not sleep, may return NULL
+MAKEDEV_WAITOK allow the function to sleep to satisfy malloc
.Ed
.Pp
The
+.Dv MAKEDEV_WAITOK
+flag is assumed if none of
+.Dv MAKEDEV_WAITOK ,
+.Dv MAKEDEV_NOWAIT
+is specified.
+.Pp
+The
.Xr dev_clone 9
event handler shall specify
.Dv MAKEDEV_REF
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