Re: genfs_node lock

2010-11-20 Thread Masao Uebayashi
Never mind. It protects some on-memory data which I don't know. (Why do I lock lots of things to read read-only ROM data? I wish VFS/BIO were written in Haskell...)

Re: Please do not yell at people for trying to help you.

2010-11-20 Thread Johnny Billquist
Matt, On 2010-11-13 04:17, Matt Thomas wrote: The VAX now has a fast non-MP emulation of atomic_cas so that should be less of an issue. I looked at this code, as well as your musings about the design. Did you miss one step in there, or did I miss something? I thought that we needed to

Re: Please do not yell at people for trying to help you.

2010-11-20 Thread Matt Thomas
On Nov 20, 2010, at 12:25 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Matt, On 2010-11-13 04:17, Matt Thomas wrote: The VAX now has a fast non-MP emulation of atomic_cas so that should be less of an issue. I looked at this code, as well as your musings about the design. Did you miss one step in

Re: module.prop rename

2010-11-20 Thread John Nemeth
On Apr 12, 5:11pm, David Holland wrote: } On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:33:00AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote: }.prop is short for proplib or property list. It also made } coding easier as s/.kmod/.prop/ doesn't change the length of the path. } Anyways, I have received several private

Re: module.prop rename

2010-11-20 Thread David Holland
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:50:03PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote: } embed the property info in the module file itself? That may or may not make more sense, but it would require a lot more work (i.e. inventing a tool to extract them, edit them, and insert them; and modifying the module