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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:47:33 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys rman.h src/sys/kern subr_rman.c
Message-ID:  <20021127.094733.127703189.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <1038397024.8963.1.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com>
References:  <200211270355.gAR3tMQh036625@repoman.freebsd.org> <1038397024.8963.1.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com>

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In message: <1038397024.8963.1.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com>
            Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes:
: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 03:55, Warner Losh wrote:
: > imp         2002/11/26 19:55:22 PST
: > 
: >   Modified files:
: >     sys/sys              rman.h 
: >     sys/kern             subr_rman.c 
: >   Log:
: >   Make the rman_{get,set}_* macros into real functions.  The macros
: >   create an ABI that encodes offsets and sizes of structures into client
: >   drivers.  The functions isolate the ABI from changes to the resource
: >   structure.  Since these are used very rarely (once at startup), the
: >   speed penalty will be down in the noise.
: >   
: >   Also, add r_rid to the structure so that clients can save the 'rid' of
: >   the resource in the struct resource, plus accessor functions.  Future
: >   additions to newbus will make use of this to present a simplified
: >   interface for resource specification.
: 
: Can you move the structures out of the public header file now? I
: originally wanted to hide the structures inside the implementation but
: Garret wanted to allow direct access to the structures, I seem to
: remember. The macros were a compromise.

I'll try and see who/what it breaks.

Warner

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