On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Kyle Evans <kev...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: kevans
> Date: Thu Jun 21 21:50:00 2018
> New Revision: 335509
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335509
>
> Log:
>   subr_hints: Fix acpi unit hinting (at the very least)
>
>   The refactoring in r335479 overlooked the fact that the dynamic kenv can
>   also be switched to if hintmode == 0. This is problematic because the
>   checkmethod bits are only ever ran once, but it worked previously because
>   the use_kenv was a global state and the first lookup would enable it if
>   occurring after the dynamic environment has been setup.
>
>   Extending our local definition of use_kenv to include all non-STATIC
>   hintmodes as long as the dynamic_kenv is setup fixes this. We still have
>   potential issues if the dynamic kenv comes up while we're doing an anchored
>   search through the environment, but this is not much of a concern right now
>   because:
>
>   1.) The dynamic environment comes up super early in boot, just after kmem
>
>   2.) This is going to get rewritten to provide a safer mechanism for the
>   anchored searches, ensuring that we continue using the same environment
>   chain (dynamic env or static fallback) for all anchored search invocations
>
>   Reported by:  mmamcy
>   X-MFC-With: r335479
>

Reported by: mmacy*
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