From owner-freebsd-arch Tue May 22 23:20:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1742E37B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 23:20:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4N6K7L78442; Wed, 23 May 2001 08:20:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Brian Somers , Garrett Wollman , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: unit_list routines In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 May 2001 22:53:26 -0300." <3B0B1816.729E3928@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:20:07 +0200 Message-ID: <78440.990598807@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3B0B1816.729E3928@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >Brian Somers wrote: >> >> I can't see any way of deriving the two from any common set of >> routines either - the resource_list stuff needs a hierarchy by it's >> nature, and I guess the ``count'' bits are intended (eventually) for >> handling limited resources such as power - not really applicable to >> unit allocation. >> >> Maybe I'm missing something though ? > >Isn't what you want precisely what md does (at least on current)? nope. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message