Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:31:50 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] <machine/cputypes.h> Message-ID: <xzpu0tkukft.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <84dead7204092621403fddd11e@mail.gmail.com> (Joseph Koshy's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2004 04:40:53 %2B0000") References: <84dead72040926185171776b99@mail.gmail.com> <20040927040137.GA3274@dragon.nuxi.com> <84dead7204092621403fddd11e@mail.gmail.com>
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Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> writes: > The pmc(4) driver (being written) needs a way of informing the > userland libpmc(3) (also being written) about the kind of CPU > present in the system and I thought I could use the symbols in > <cputypes.h> instead of defining them in <sys/pmc.h>. Is there a good reason why pmc(4) can't pass this information out as a string? Less chance of future breaks in binary compatibility that way. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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