Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:18:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Rename of MSIZE kernel option.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210141318240.63899-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021014161512.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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go for it.. On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > Would people be open to renaming the 'MSIZE' kernel option to something > more specific such as 'MBUF_SIZE' or 'MBUFSIZE'? Using 'MSIZE' can > break other places in the kernel. For example, ISA device ivars have > an ivar for the size of a memory resource called 'MSIZE' and the kernel > option causes breakage in src/sys/isa/isavar.h: > > ISA_ACCESSOR(msize, MSIZE, int) > > when ISA_ACCESSOR is properly defined via __BUS_ACCESSOR() rather than > homerolling a private copy of __BUS_ACCESSOR(). For now I've fixed it > to rename the ISA ivar to ISA_IVAR_MEMSIZE but MSIZE seems to be too > generic a name for a kernel option and it would be nice to avoid this > problem in the future. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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