From owner-cvs-all Tue Nov 28 10:44:39 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D1137B400; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:44:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA07812; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:44:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:44:23 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200011281844.NAA07812@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mike Smith Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/mlx mlx.c mlx_pci.c mlxvar.h In-Reply-To: <200011281840.eASIejF25898@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200011281819.NAA07602@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200011281840.eASIejF25898@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Ah. That prevents the resource management code from swapping your RID out > from under you, which was part of the original design. ``Design'' is probably too strong a word. I thought it might be useful to have such a capability when I first put the API together, but I haven't managed think of a good use for it since then, and several people at BSDcon suggested that it was both counterintuitive and unnecessary. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message