From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 7 17:31:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA12319 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 17:31:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA12307; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 17:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@coppe.ufrj.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24122; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:31:12 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199712080131.XAA24122@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT src/sys/i386/include console.h mouse.h src/sys/i386/isa kbdio.h mse.c psm.c syscons.c In-Reply-To: <199712080114.KAA00192@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> from Kazutaka YOKOTA at "Dec 8, 97 10:13:41 am" To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:31:12 -0200 (EDT) Cc: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Kazutaka YOKOTA) // >You said it would be "printed", so I imagine an array of strings. // // Ah, yes, information is stored in memory for later use AND a // human-readable string corresponding to the information is printed. // // The driver has the following static strings: // // "NetScroll Mouse", "NetMouse", "GlidePoint", "ThinkingMouse", // "IntelliMouse", "MouseMan+", "Generic PS/2 mouse" // // Maybe you are thinking this is too much? Sorry if I let you think it was personal. I'm not worried about one or two (or seven :) ) strings in kernel, but with the general growing interest in putting this kind of info in non-swapable memory. It's not a problem if you have a server with lots of memory, but it's a pain for small machines. Unfortunatly, kernel swapping or kernel routines memory disposal is not an easy thing to do. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67