From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 10:45:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1380037B69B; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:45:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from scsiguy.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0BIjBs35569; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:45:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Message-Id: <200101111845.f0BIjBs35569@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: John Baldwin Cc: Bruce Evans , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jake Burkholder , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha interrupt.c machdep.c mp_mac In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:40:02 PST." Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:45:11 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Anyone touching these variables had better understand what they are for >> and how they operate. I think our developers are smart enough to understand >> this without ugly upper-case macros. Heck "errno" is not spelled >> PTHREAD_GET(errno), or PTHREAD_SET(errno, error) and still people seem >> to be able to write useful threaded apps. 8-) > >Erm, I didn't know that all developers that ever touched the kernel needed to >memorize all the various MD header files machine/globals.h and >machine/globaldata.h for _each_ architecture. I guess we want the learning >curve so high that no one else can submit code? :-P That is an implementation complaint, not an interface complaint. I thought we were discussing the interface? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message