Subject: Re: _KERNEL_foo
To: None <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/13/2000 13:36:30
Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:
> On 13 Dec 2000, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> # (Things that come to mind recently have been the line discipline
> # changes, and the watchdog interface.  The latter, especially, annoys
> # me, because (1) as far as I can tell, it simply wasn't discussed; (2)
> # as you'll see if you read the ex post facto discussion here, from
> # people who've been playing with watchdogs for a while, it's simply not
> # sufficient.)
> 
> 1)	WHAT line discipline changes?  (Subject, please?)

search the list archives.  "source-changes line discipline"

also:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2000/11/02/0005.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2000/11/02/0006.html


> 2)	Watchdog interface?  I remember something about a kernel-userland
> 	watchdog interface a while back, but nothing came of it, at least
> 	not publicly.  There was some discussion, but no final decision.

Uh, there were:

* jason thorpe's commits (which were, as far as I know, on an
un-discussed interface).

* http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2000/11/04/0007.html

* and then various followups to that where lots of people (starting
with me 8-) said, "uh, that isn't such a good interface."



cgd