In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Malone writes:
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 09:48:47AM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
If anybody is looking for a simple task to perform in the FreeBSD
kernel: this is it.
Before anyone else starts looking at this, I've collected and
cleaned up the patches I've
Now, if one or two people will review this patch and verify that
LINT GENERIC kernels compile the same, we're set for commit...
It works fine with GENERIC - atleast I tested a buildworld with
sources build with it. I don't think LINT compiles at the moment,
atleast it seems to get stuck in
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:54:25PM +0100, David Malone wrote:
Now, if one or two people will review this patch and verify that
LINT GENERIC kernels compile the same, we're set for commit...
It works fine with GENERIC - atleast I tested a buildworld with
sources build with it. I don't
If anybody is looking for a simple task to perform in the FreeBSD
kernel: this is it.
A quick grep tells me that there are at least 91 files in the src/sys
tree which could use this flag to simplify and optimize the code.
i'll probably start looking at these this week sometime...
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 09:48:47AM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
If anybody is looking for a simple task to perform in the FreeBSD
kernel: this is it.
A quick grep tells me that there are at least 91 files in the src/sys
tree which could use this flag to simplify and optimize the code.
I have introduced the M_ZERO flag to the kernel malloc, which provides
the service to bzero() the memory allocted.
In the kernel sources, the archetypical change to use this facility
looks like this:
Old code:
databuf = malloc(length, M_DEVBUF, M_WAITOK);
In 17100.972069144@critter, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
If anybody is looking for a simple task to perform in the FreeBSD
kernel: this is it.
Is it necessary to announce it somewhere, when I want to do that?
Submit changes to the maintainer of the file (if any) or
with send-pr.
