From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 22 12: 7:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.wheel.dk (freesbee.wheel.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B1637B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by freesbee.wheel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 20C6C3E51; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:07:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:07:48 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver To: David Malone Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Garrett Rooney , Andrea Campi , current@FreeBSD.ORG, josh@zipperup.org, robd@gmx.net Subject: Re: Junior Kernel Hacker Task: M_ZERO Message-ID: <20001022210747.A4324@skriver.dk> References: <7263.972191191@critter> <200010221854.aa75575@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010221854.aa75575@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:54:25PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:54:25PM +0100, David Malone wrote: > > Now, if one or two people will review this patch and verify that > > LINT & GENERIC kernels compile the same, we're set for commit... > > It works fine with GENERIC - atleast I tested a buildworld with > sources build with it. I don't think LINT compiles at the moment, > atleast it seems to get stuck in the midway driver. I'll have a > look at it this evening. > > One other think I wanted to do was seperate out the bits of the > patch which touches code shared among the BSDs (KAME in particular). > We should probably check with the owners of the code before we > touch it, as it is a sort of "cosmetic" change. OTOH, it seems like > something which could be useful for all the BSDs, as it provides > the memory allocation system with a better idea of the demand for > various types of memory. What about using something like #if defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD_version >= 5xxxxx This would probably make it easier for multi OS code, and also make it easier to MFC some of the affected code into -stable ?? /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: Geek @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message