On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:30:55AM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: > > > "some MD implementations might have this for their internal use"? > > > it sounds useless and confusing to me. > > > > It has two legitimate audiences: (1) people bringing up new ports, who > > may not already know the ins and outs of making MD spl handling go, > > and who would be better off reading and understanding documentation > > than blindly cutting and pasting existing logic; and also (2) anyone > > looking to unify common MD code and make it MI. > > i don't think it's what this man page is for. > > having such documentation somewhere might be helpful, sure. i even > suggested to put it as comments along the code. however please don't > put them in this man page.
I think the solution that's been committed is an acceptable way of dealing with this. > > > > Of course, we could get rid of them and move to MI spl functions :-) > > > > (see tech-kern, ad@ just found the thread and thereby > > > > reminded me of it) > > > > > > we are discussing if we want to describe MD internal details in the > > > man page of MI spl interfaces. > > i don't understand what you meant by "MI spl functions". > what this man page describes is what can be used by MI code. > (except splraise and spllower, of course) Their existence is MI... anyway: > > However, if you have an opinion on that thread it'd be good to hear > > it... there, of course :-) > > i'm not sure which thread are you talking about. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2009/10/29/msg006383.html -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
