Writing Device Drivers

Initializing Condition Variables

Declare a condition variable (type kcondvar_t) for each condition. Usually, this is done in the driver's soft-state structure. Use cv_init(9F) to initialize each one. Similar to mutexes, condition variables are usually initialized at attach(9E) time. For example:

	...
 	cv_init(&xsp->cv, NULL, CV_DRIVER, NULL);
 	...

For a more complete example of condition variable initialization see Chapter 5, Autoconfiguration.