K 10
svn:author
V 3
dfr
K 8
svn:date
V 27
2003-10-16T09:16:28.000000Z
K 7
svn:log
V 1296
* Add multiple inheritance to kobj. Each class can have zero or more base
  classes and if a method is not found in a given class, its base classes
  are searched (in the order they were declared). This search is recursive,
  i.e. a method may be define in a base class of a base class.
* Change the kobj method lookup algorithm to one which is SMP-safe. This
  relies only on the constraint that an observer of a sequence of writes
  of pointer-sized values will see exactly one of those values, not a
  mixture of two or more values. This assumption holds for all processors
  which FreeBSD supports.
* Add locking to kobj class initialisation.
* Add a simpler form of 'inheritance' for devclasses. Each devclass can
  have a parent devclass. Searches for drivers continue up the chain of
  devclasses until either a matching driver is found or a devclass is
  reached which has no parent. This can allow, for instance, pci drivers
  to match cardbus devices (assuming that cardbus declares pci as its
  parent devclass).
* Increment __FreeBSD_version.

This preserves the driver API entirely except for one minor feature used
by the ISA compatibility shims. A workaround for ISA compatibility will
be committed separately. The kobj and newbus ABI has changed - all modules
must be recompiled.

END