Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Resource Management | Date | Mon, 04 Mar 1996 00:10:37 -0700 | From | Drew Eckhardt <> |
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In message <199603032115.QAA06031@infoweb.magi.com>, dmtech@magi.com writes: >I need some opinions about hardware resource management: > >1) Should hardware resources be specified as 'from & number' > or as 'first & last'? (I prefer the latter).
from & number. With first and last, each caller must do calculations for all possible port addresses where as with from & number it doesn't. Also, the existing request_region function takes from & number; this is consistant.
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