[wrong list, redirecting to source-changes-d, sorry...]
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:34:54AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:56:27AM +0000, Matt Thomas wrote: > > (slightly bogus but then we really should kill extent and switch to vmem) > > I keep hearing this mantra. > > Yet I don't see how vmem(9) is up to the task of, say, managing pcmcia io > port allocations (without bogusly wasting memory). > > Why is the vmem interface preferable? I see how we could improve the extend(9) > implementation (e.g. kill the use fo malloc()). > > Martin