From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 25 7:16:37 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A05014BE6; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:16:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id QAA15856; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:15:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), mike@smith.net.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, luigi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_dummynet.c References: <199903250723.IAA12325@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Mar 1999 16:15:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:23:27 +0100 (MET)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Luigi Rizzo writes: > I understand that name space pollution issues do not leave the option > of having all "opt_*" included in "opt_global.h" unless we standardize names > in a way that reduces conflicts... So should we go for that, e.g. having > > OPT_* for generic options > DEV_* for devices > > and so on ? It's not just namespace pollution. If you pack everything into opt_global.h, you'll get a lot of false-negative up-to-date checks, and your kernel will take longer than necessary to build after minor configuration modifications. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message