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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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To: dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, julian@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: DEVFS: new devices on the 'backing plane' never propagated to 'front planes'
References: <199708261510.TAA00594@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>

>Number:         4399
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Re: DEVFS: new devices on the 'backing plane' never propagated to 'front planes'
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 26 10:10:00 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 1 10:37:32 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov 27 19:24:25 PST 2001
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: gpalmer 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 1 10:37:32 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Mis-formatted follow-up to PR 4397 
>Unformatted:
Dmitrij Tejblum wrote:

thankyou!!!
I will add these 2 patches asap


nice to have some=one else looking at it.
I am suffering from "author's blindness"


julian


> Function 'devfs_propogate' should do the propagation. It tryes to iterate
> front planes with the following cycl:
> 
>         for (adnp = pdnp->nextsibling;
>                 adnp != pdnp->nextsibling;
>                 adnp = adnp->nextsibling)
> 
> Obvious, the cycl will never run, because after adnp = p
[....]
(and the previous submission)
