From owner-cvs-all Sun Apr 2 8:54:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B502837B55D; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 08:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA15248; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:54:25 +1000 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:54:07 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c vfs_bio.c src/sys/sys buf.h In-Reply-To: <14379.954688153@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200004021459.IAA11447@caspian.plutotech.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" wri > >Do we even want "buffer" to be part of the name? By the time the > Well, bio means "block I/O" to me these days and we already have > a lot of names which point to that as the logical prefix (biodone() > being just one of them). I thought it meant "buffer i/o". "struct bio" is unfortunately even more block-specific than "struct buf", since it doesn't have anything like "off_t b_offset". b_offset is currently used mainly in the acd driver to handle weird block sizes. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message