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Re: General device properties API



On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 09:10:48AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
 > > Why do we pass untyped strings around with this device_call mechanism?
 > > Was there any discussion about this beforehand?  Had I known it was
 > > proposed I would have objected to an untyped string method calling
 > > mechanism -- surely we can do better to detect typos and type errors
 > > at compile-time.
 > 
 > This complaint is at best tangentially related to the topic at
 > hand, and can be adjusted separately from this discussion.

Sure, but let's not forget to, ok? I was also not entirely pleased by
seeing new untyped things going in without discussion.

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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