From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 22 19:27:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA09057 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr01.primenet.com (tlambert@usr01.primenet.com [206.165.6.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09050 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00690; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:24:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709230224.TAA00690@usr01.primenet.com> 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 To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 02:24:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, nate@mt.sri.com, gibbs@plutotech.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <34270EA7.1CFBAE39@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Sep 22, 97 05:34:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Anyway, it shouldn't be to hard to make either of the old and the new > > implementations available under a compile option, the new calling > > API is a a superset of the old, isn't it ? > > NO, which is what I'm complaining about.. > I thonk it's a good idea, but since it would ha ve been so simple to > keep a compatible API and extend, it, it seems a foolish thing to do > to NOT do that.. I am now in favor of the new API, now that I believe it can be taken to, effectively, O(1), O(1), O(1) for the most common cases. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.