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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:01:03 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Nicolas Christin <nicolas@cs.virginia.edu>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rename of MSIZE kernel option..
Message-ID:  <20021015050103.GD14604@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210150002310.13090-100000@arachnion.cs.Virginia.EDU>
References:  <15787.13726.246550.526201@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210150002310.13090-100000@arachnion.cs.Virginia.EDU>

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On 2002-10-15 00:12, Nicolas Christin <nicolas@cs.virginia.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> >  > Would people be open to renaming the 'MSIZE' kernel option to something
> >  > more specific such as 'MBUF_SIZE' or 'MBUFSIZE'?  Using 'MSIZE' can
> >
> > No.
> >
> > MSIZE is a traditional BSDism.  Everybody else still uses it.
> > Even AIX and MacOS.  I really don't like the idea of changing this.
>
> True, but John is right, it's too generic a name. The argument "it's
> been forever so we can't change it" seems a bit fallacious to me:

True.  But that sort of reasoning might lead us one day to rename
macros and functions like m_get() to mbuf_get() or similar.  That
doesn't seem like a good idea :-/

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