Previously the "struct disk" were owned by the device driver and this
gave us problems when the device disappared and the users of that device
were not immediately disappearing.
Now the struct disk is allocate with a new call, disk_alloc() and owned
by geom_disk and just abandonned by the device driver when disk_create()
is called.
Unfortunately, this results in a ton of "s/\./->/" changes to device
drivers.
Since I'm doing the sweep anyway, a couple of other API improvements
have been carried out at the same time:
The Giant awareness flag has been flipped from DISKFLAG_NOGIANT to
DISKFLAG_NEEDSGIANT
A version number have been added to disk_create() so that we can detect,
report and ignore binary drivers with old ABI in the future.
Manual page update to follow shortly.
to store an int in the bio->bio_driver1 (a void *). It is big enough,
but you have to match the int sizes first before doing the cast.
Glanced at by: scottl
series. This driver was generously developed and released by David
Jeffreys and Adaptec. I've updated it to work with 5.x and fixed a
few bugs.
MFC After: 1 week
