At Tue, 13 May 2003 08:23:44 +0000 (UTC), "David Laight" wrote:
> I would like to add some kernel code into libkern so that it is
> available to any ports that reference it, and to the standalone/boot code.
>
> However this seems to be a departure from current practise where libkern
> only contains C support routines (like memcpy and the 64bit integer support).
> 
> Is there a problem doing this?
> Does anyone have a better idea?
>
> The code I'm actually looking at is that which finds the netbsd disklabel
> on a disk with an MBR (eg most i386 disks).  It also generates a label
> from the MBR itself if the disk doesn't contain one in a NetBSD partition.

based on what it is, i'd say that it belongs in a separate kernel
library (that could contain other disklabel stuff as well).  Really,
all the disklable-grovelling code belongs in a library of its own,
accessable on all ports, IMO.



cgd