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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:40:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Suboptimal mmap of devices on i86
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010129174030.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101300059.f0U0xkI80979@earth.backplane.com>

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On 30-Jan-01 Matt Dillon wrote:
>:
>:Oh yuck.  Please do rename the darn thing back at some point then.  Or if its
>:only going to be in -current, don't bother.  No one expects to be able to use
>:a
>:4.x module in 5.x, so just change the function w/o the old name.
>:
>:-- 
>:
>:John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
> 
>     I'd like to see this MFC'd to stable at some point and they should be
>     the same patch.

Then only rename it in 4.x  We can do an API change for 5.0.  We'll be renaming
syscall2() back to syscall() in 5.0 for example.  We don't want to end up with
syscall47() someday in FreeBSD 67.2. :-P
 
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