Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:14:13 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Renaming cnt to vm_cnt Message-ID: <CAGE5yCqcgqq6ypN5uvMjp9VMgJURcBpCpc80QdHhvmm8FTr1Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ee93c48d14e531d60598ea20b533fcdc@shatow.net> References: <1627768f8d03e34c68dbe72038033a2d@shatow.net> <ee93c48d14e531d60598ea20b533fcdc@shatow.net>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2014-03-14 09:20, Bryan Drewery wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~bdrewery/patches/cnt_vm_cnt.diff >> >> I would like to rename the vmmeter.h global cnt to vm_cnt. >> It is quite a generic variable to be polluting the global >> namespace. The variable is only defined in _KERNEL, so >> there is no userland/KBI risk. > > > I take that back. I will do an exp-run at least to ensure no ports with > modules need fixing. It's more than just modules - things like lsof, net-snmp etc are likely candidates to check too. Anything that uses libkvm or /dev/kmem. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV Yes, I know, gmail sucks now. If you see this then I forgot. Habits are hard to break.
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