Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:40:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/mlx mlx.c mlx_pci.c mlxvar.h Message-ID: <200011281840.eASIejF25898@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:19:01 EST." <200011281819.NAA07602@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:21:21 -0800, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> said:
>
> > Do you want to clarify what you mean by "by value"?
>
> The standard Computer Science meaning of ``by value''. I.e.:
>
> :%s/int *rid/int rid/g
Ah. That prevents the resource management code from swapping your RID out
from under you, which was part of the original design. In retrospect,
what that seeks to achieve would probably be better done with a field in
'struct resource' and/or the device's ivars.
--
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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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