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Date:      Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:09:27 +0400
From:      Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        kib@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cpuctl(formely devcpu) patch test request
Message-ID:  <20080606020927.8d6675e1.stas@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080605204823.GA7361@epsilon.local>
References:  <20080605231705.db589d89.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20080605204823.GA7361@epsilon.local>

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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:55:39 +0100
Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> mentioned:

> A couple comments:
> 1) Do you plan to MFC this ? For what older versions of FreeBSD will devc=
pu be
> shipped?

In fact, I plan to MFC that to all supported FreeBSD versions (6, 7),
as changes are minimal. Until that those versions will be supported
by sysutils/devcpu port.

>=20
> 2) in cpuctl_modevent(): perhaps it's better to return ENOMEM instead of
> ENOSYS if malloc() fails and ENXIO instead of ENOSYS if MSR functionality=
 is
> not present

I fully agree on ENOMEM (thanks for noticing that), while I think that
returning ENOSYS for MSR-less systems is more correct, as it states that
required functionality isn't implemented for this hardware.
=20
> 3) I don't mean to impose, but this code needs some small style cleanup,
>    namely: characters above the 80 column, second level indents are four
>    spaces"

Good catch! Fixed.

The updated patch is available at
http://www.springdaemons.com/stas/cpuctl.2.diff

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE

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