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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: ache@nagual.ru, peter@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c
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>>   restore nsccons variable from rev 1.115 that was deleted in rev 1.136
>>   during phk's staticize/cleanup commits.  pstat needs it, the MAXCONS
>>   option is not visible anywhere else, and pstat uses it to find the bounds
>>   of the sccons[MAXCONS] array, which varies.

>As I remember, poor nsccons variable was deleted/restored already
>2-3 times. Even direct comment about pstat not protect it from removing.
>Do we have any better way to protect it?

It hasn't been restored before (but was missing until rev.1.115.  The
delete/restores occurred for almost every serial driver.  I think
declaring the variables as `static const' is good enough.  Comments
saying that they are used by pstat become silly if they are ever
used by other utilities.

Bruce