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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:01:45 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
To:        Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com>
Cc:        Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/lge if_lge.c src/sys/dev/nge if_nge.c src/sys/dev/vx if_vx.c src/sys/kern uipc_mbuf.c src/sys/pci if_dc.c if_rl.c if_sf.c if_sis.c if_sk.c if_vr.c if_wb.c
Message-ID:  <20010620170145.N4543@sneakerz.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010620174149.A36453@technokratis.com>; from bmilekic@technokratis.com on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:41:49PM -0400
References:  <200106201948.f5KJmbG47979@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010620162727.K4543@sneakerz.org> <20010620174149.A36453@technokratis.com>

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* Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> [010620 16:41] wrote:
> 
> 	Argh! *Nobody* is going to be using that offset. It's wrong and it's
> from the pre-1995 era. All people may do is pass 0 to it anyway, in which the
> behavior won't change from the previous.
> 	But if it makes you feel so much better to have a broken function sit
> around -STABLE then fine, I just won't MFC it at all. And I'm not going to
> bother doing it later when someone complains that `offset' is not working
> as they expect it to.

if... anyone passing something else than 0 to m_devget in -stable will
cause a panic() then go ahead, otherwise don't change the interface.
people accidentally relying on m_devget doing the wrong thing will have
quite a painful time trying to track it down if the behavior changes.

-Alfred

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