On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> degenerates quickly into a mess of special cases |-<. I dislike the idea
> of pushing this knowledge down into the drivers and bloating them with a
> bunch of platform-dependent #ifdef blocks, but right now I honestly can't
> see how else to handle this stuff in a way that can ensure that all the
> strange edge cases are handled properly. And they MUST be handled
> properly, or system stability can be at risk. Ideas?
Pick the safe but slow "one size fits all" as a default, and add
runtime flags for performance enhancing settings? Then it's up to
the sysadmin to know what's best for their purposes. I guess that
might be more easily said than done in some cases without adding
cycles to performace critical areas.
--
Brian
