lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1996]   [Mar]   [4]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: RFC: Resource Management
Date
From
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.



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:36    [W:0.071 / U:0.632 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site