Re: RFC: /dev/console -> /var/log/messages idea/patch

2000-11-25 Thread Chuck Paterson
Is there reason to believe that we won't have dead lock problems from the M_WAITOK? It seems like that if anything in the path needed to full fill the malloc needs to log there is a problem. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-07 Thread Chuck Paterson
FYI, this is very likely not caused by the heavy weight interrupt threads, but rather because the interrupt threads can't be run because the giant lock is held by a process running in the kernel. Once we get drivers to have their own locking and pulled out from under the giant lock this pr