On 27-Sep-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 4. It may not even work at all in the first place. We havn't done
> the VFS locking yet, so dropping giant in specfs may open a pathway
> to the dungeon-dimensions (this is a bad thing).
I actually implemented this very early on during SMPng (a
Various people have bugged me for when they could make their drivers
Giant-free and this is an attempt to give them a chance to try that.
There are *MANY* things to be aware of trying to do this, I'll just
list some of them here:
1. Your driver has to be re-entrant on all the cdevsw->d_* funct
