On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Yury Tarasievich wrote: > > I need to port some driver from linux to freebsd and, somehow, > > I can't find documentation on kernel locks and mutexes. > > There are no man pages, links from handbook are broken, and search on > > freebsd site gives nothing (besides the handbook itself). > > > > Where can I find some docs? > > Kernel documentation is poor, because interfaces are not as fixed in > stone as you might expect them to be to encourage third party > developement and porting efforts like yours.
Funny, the SMPng primitives seem in general to be fairly well documented. See my previous e-mail to Yury with a list of man page references. It's certainly true that the source is a good reference to look at existing locking strategies, but there certainly do appear to be man pages for the locking primitives. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
