Re: CVS commit: src/sys

["Arnaud Lacombe" <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Antti Kantee <pooka%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon Jan 05 2009 at 17:42:23 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Antti Kantee <pooka%netbsd.org@localhost> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Module Name:    src
>> > Committed By:   pooka
>> > Date:           Mon Jan  5 21:42:37 UTC 2009
>> >
>> > Modified Files:
>> >        src/sys/kern: kern_malloc.c
>> >        src/sys/rump/librump/rumpkern: Makefile.rumpkern emul.c
>> >        src/sys/rump/librump/rumpuser: Makefile rumpuser.c
>> >        src/sys/sys: malloc.h
>> >
>> > Log Message:
>> > Rename malloc() to kern_malloc() to avoid name conflict with libc.
>> > Now it is possible to use the kernel linker with rump.
>> >
>> Isn't that a bit too intrusive ? There is plenty of way to avoid name
>> conflict without touch the function name.
>
> Intrusive to what?
>
to the kernel itself. rump(4) is an abstraction layer. It should not
require such change and should not lead to bump of the kernel version.

 - Arnaud