From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 15 1:47:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B72437B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 01:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76BE143EB1 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 01:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 27036 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2002 08:40:16 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-83.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (@150.140.128.171) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 15 Oct 2002 08:40:16 -0000 Received: by hades.hell.gr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7F597B60D; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:01:03 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:01:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nicolas Christin Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rename of MSIZE kernel option.. Message-ID: <20021015050103.GD14604@hades.hell.gr> References: <15787.13726.246550.526201@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-10-15 00:12, Nicolas Christin wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Would people be open to renaming the 'MSIZE' kernel option to something > > > more specific such as 'MBUF_SIZE' or 'MBUFSIZE'? Using 'MSIZE' can > > > > No. > > > > MSIZE is a traditional BSDism. Everybody else still uses it. > > Even AIX and MacOS. I really don't like the idea of changing this. > > True, but John is right, it's too generic a name. The argument "it's > been forever so we can't change it" seems a bit fallacious to me: True. But that sort of reasoning might lead us one day to rename macros and functions like m_get() to mbuf_get() or similar. That doesn't seem like a good idea :-/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message