Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:01:48 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/dev/vx if_vx.c if_vxreg.h src/sys/i386/apm apm.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC files.i386 src/sys/i386/eisa 3c5x9.c aha1742.c aic7770.c bt74x.c eisaconf.c eisaconf.h if_fea.c if_vx_eisa.c src/sys/i386/i386 a Message-ID: <199709221801.MAA25322@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:26:24 PDT." <3426AA40.41C67EA6@whistle.com>
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>Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >The thing I don't like abut what has been done is: > >It's changed a very standard and well understood service in the kernel. >I think you should have left it the same and implimented a cam_timeout >facility that runs separatly. > >all my drivers that are shared between various OS now need to >be modified, with a new #if defined(__FreeBSD__) in them. Various BSDs. I chose not to implement a backwards compatibility interface as I'd have to allocate even more space to make it as efficient as the new one and updating client code is easy to do. It's a small price to pay for progress and it's not as though we haven't changed other interfaces in the kernel to differ from other BSDs. The proposed change was discussed in Core well in advance of my commit. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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