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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: net@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Rename of MSIZE kernel option..
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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.
> 
> -- 
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