From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 19 22: 4:25 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522D315227; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA02048; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:01:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Jeremy Cc: julian@whistle.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: Splitting struct buf In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:36:37 +1000." <99Aug20.101641est.40337@border.alcanet.com.au> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:01:45 +0200 Message-ID: <2046.935125305@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <99Aug20.101641est.40337@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy writes: >Julian Elischer wrote: >>changing both is also a fair idea. >>(that way we know that someone looked at ALL the places the present struct >>buf is used.. :-) > >Ignoring the smiley, I think this is probably the best suggestion. It >provides a clear `heads-up' for any independent device writers that >the usage has changed. There are about 750 references to struct buf >in the kernel - missing one would be quite easy. > >If only one name changes, then POLA would suggest that `struct buf' >remain associated with I/O requests (which is the historical and >probably most common usage). I'm happy either way, I'm not religiously attached to any of the names. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message