Subject: Re: LKM diff for review
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Peter Postma <peter@pointless.nl>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/25/2004 14:07:40
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:37:42PM +0200, cube@cubidou.net wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:32:04PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> 
> > static max.  i don't see any reason not to remove this limit...
> 
> I don't mind that change either, of course.  I'm wondering if it is a
> real clean-up, though.  Sure, it saves 800 bytes or so, but adds some
> complexity, and I don't quite get that refcnt thing;  I find it
> confusing to change 'used' by 'refcnt' if there is no intent of adding
> dependency support.
> 

The refcnt is not for dependency support, I've just used that name from
OpenBSD. In OpenBSD there's also a depcnt (unused) but I didn't added that
one. The refcnt is just needed for some extra sanity.

-- 
Peter Postma