On Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:08:12 pm Xin LI wrote:
> On 10/21/10 04:46, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:57:25 am Xin LI wrote:
> >> Author: delphij
> >> Date: Thu Oct 21 08:57:25 2010
> >> New Revision: 214125
> >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/214125
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   In syscall_module_handler(): all switch branches return, remove
> >>   unreached code as pointed out in a Chinese forum [1].
> >>
> >>   [1] http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50619
> >>
> >>   Pointed out by:          btw616 <btw s qq com>
> >>   MFC after:               1 month
> >
> > I think this exposes a bug though in that the default case doesn't pass
> > through to chainevh.  The default case should look more like the removed 
code
> > (except returning EOPNOTSUPP instead of 0 if there is no chainevh).
> 
> Hmm...  It sounds reasonable in theory (so that modules can handle
> events other than MOD_LOAD/UNLOAD) at least, while I don't think it's
> really being used anywhere.

Yes, I agree it probably isn't used, but it'd be a weird surprise if someone 
tried to make use of it in the future for MOD_QUIESCE or the like.

> Will the attached patch look reasonable?  (If data->chainevh is NULL
> then operation is not supported, if not then delegate to the module).

Yes, I think this is fine.

-- 
John Baldwin
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