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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:01:45 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        julian@whistle.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, grog@lemis.com
Subject:   Re: Splitting struct buf 
Message-ID:  <2046.935125305@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:36:37 %2B1000." <99Aug20.101641est.40337@border.alcanet.com.au> 

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In message <99Aug20.101641est.40337@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy writes:
>Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> 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!


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