John Baldwin writes:
> 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.
> break other places in the kernel. For example, ISA device ivars have
> an ivar for the size of a memory resource called 'MSIZE' and the kernel
> option causes breakage in src/sys/isa/isavar.h:
>
> ISA_ACCESSOR(msize, MSIZE, int)
>
> when ISA_ACCESSOR is properly defined via __BUS_ACCESSOR() rather than
> homerolling a private copy of __BUS_ACCESSOR(). For now I've fixed it
> to rename the ISA ivar to ISA_IVAR_MEMSIZE but MSIZE seems to be too
> generic a name for a kernel option and it would be nice to avoid this
> problem in the future.
Renaming MSIZE to ISA_IVAR_MEMSIZE seems right to me.
Drew
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