From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 17:41: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DE037B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0U1ZT352632; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:35:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200101300059.f0U0xkI80979@earth.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:40:30 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Matt Dillon Subject: Re: Suboptimal mmap of devices on i86 Cc: Drew Eckhardt , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Jan-01 Matt Dillon wrote: >: >:Oh yuck. Please do rename the darn thing back at some point then. Or if its >:only going to be in -current, don't bother. No one expects to be able to use >:a >:4.x module in 5.x, so just change the function w/o the old name. >: >:-- >: >:John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > > I'd like to see this MFC'd to stable at some point and they should be > the same patch. Then only rename it in 4.x We can do an API change for 5.0. We'll be renaming syscall2() back to syscall() in 5.0 for example. We don't want to end up with syscall47() someday in FreeBSD 67.2. :-P -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message