Cynthia McGuire wrote: > Because use of floating point types is discouraged in the kernel, and all of
Discouraged yes but it does work and it is used in places. Care needs to be taken though. The only place I know of that does it is the sun4u/sparcv9 optimised version of the bignum module. > the FMA components that will be consuming these new interfaces live in > userland, they will be made available via libnvpair but not in the kernel DDI. > Preprocessor guards will be used to ensure the new code is not compiled > into the kernel. I don't have a current use for them but rather than just not making them available wouldn't it be better to but a nice big warning in the man page ? -- Darren J Moffat
