FreeBSD/alpha. The most significant item is to change the command
argument to ioctl functions from int to u_long. This change brings us
inline with various other BSD versions. Driver writers may like to
use (__FreeBSD_version == 300003) to detect this change.
The prototype FreeBSD/alpha machdep will follow in a couple of days
time.
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Make callers of namei() responsible for releasing references or locks
instead of having the underlying filesystems do it. This eliminates
redundancy in all terminal filesystems and makes it possible for stacked
transport layers such as umapfs or nullfs to operate correctly.
Quality testing was done with testvn, and lat_fs from the lmbench suite.
Some NFS client testing courtesy of Patrik Kudo.
vop_mknod and vop_symlink still release the returned vpp. vop_rename
still releases 4 vnode arguments before it returns. These remaining cases
will be corrected in the next set of patches.
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Submitted by: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
all the LKM load/unload junk, and don't forget to register the SYSINIT
so that the cdevsw entry is attached.
BTW: I think the way it builds it's /dev nodes on the fly as an LKM with
vnode ops is kinda cute - I guess that'd be one way to solve the devfs
persistance problems.. :-) (ie: have the drivers make the nodes in /dev
on disk directly if they are missing, but leave them alone if present).
