Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:14:01 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_Nephtali?= <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] (was: Laptop doesn't free memory so old dmesg can be seen) Message-ID: <20020815101401.A9066@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20020815170312.GA224@nebula.WorkGroup>; from aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr on Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:03:12PM %2B0200 References: <20020815170312.GA224@nebula.WorkGroup>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:03:12PM +0200, Aurélien Nephtali wrote: > Hi, > > After informations given by Brook Davis (thanks to him :p) I investigate in > /sys/kern/subr_prf.c . I just add a bzero() but it fixes the *problem*. > > I think it doesn't break anything but every comments are welcome. > > Can the attached patch be commited ? You missed the point! This is a feature that some people want. You "fix" isn't one. IMO, the correct solution would be to mark boots and fix dmesg to only display messages since the last boot unless you specify a flag. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9W+FZXY6L6fI4GtQRAti3AKDXa47upWOMod/0NjroK+l+D9S8hACfdI9B DxbQsiCwLvTKl0lqIu3qdY0= =8mFI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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