On Sep 18, 2009, at 9:10 AM, David Laight wrote:
It is all rather similar to the proliferation of memory pools - for
things where 'malloc' would be fine.
The old-school kernel malloc was almost never "fine" ... but pools
have another advantage -- use of a direct-mapped segment on
architec
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:05:38AM +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
>
> > People are most welcome to fix this ugliness
> > properly by helping to get rid of link sets in the kernel.
>
> I'm glad you agree that link sets are ugly. On the matter of a getting rid of
> them I did offer to discuss a soluti
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:15:09PM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > In pmf(9), improve the implementation of device self-suspension
> > and make suspension by self, by drvctl(8), and by ACPI system sleep
> > play nice together. Start solidifying some temporary API changes.
> :
>
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, David Brownlee wrote:
> Index: src/distrib/common/runlist.sh
[...]
> +( while [ "X$1" != "X" ]; do
> + cat $1
> + shift
> +done ) | awk -f ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/distrib/common/list2sh.awk | ${SHELLCMD}
Why is the while loop necessary? Why not just use
awk -f .../
