Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:43:46 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bitstring(9) in kernel. Message-ID: <20040315154346.GD8930@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040315153919.GC8930@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20040315143123.GB8930@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <xzpish6f9hb.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040315150248.GL35475@elvis.mu.org> <xzp65d6f8ob.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040315153919.GC8930@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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--9UV9rz0O2dU/yYYn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:39:19PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: +> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:10:12PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: +> +> That being said, I have no objection to Pawel's patch. +>=20 +> Just want to double check: Should I go ahead and commit it? +> Or you want think this over? +>=20 +> The only user- and kernel-land friendly solution will be to +> reimplement bit_alloc() as bit_alloc(bits, type, flags). +> Arguments 'type' and 'flags' will be unused in userland and for +> userland-only application we can provide bit_ualloc(bits) +> or something. But this looks a bit hackish. No, maybe just create bit_malloc(bits, type, flags) and don't touch bit_alloc() for backwards compatibility. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --9UV9rz0O2dU/yYYn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAVc8yForvXbEpPzQRArDkAJwLQOMY2yabBoi1HA3XKdkhSEE1QQCcDFri 3rrxmtp7sN5QpoWQ6lETQ0U= =e55N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9UV9rz0O2dU/yYYn--
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