[PATCH,HURD] Fix use of deprecated iopl device
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Aug 16 18:17:09 PDT 2010
olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net, le Sat 14 Aug 2010 23:15:01 +0200, a écrit :
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:37:22PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net, le Tue 10 Aug 2010 00:02:58 +0200, a écrit :
>
> > > > - mach_port_t device,iopl_dev;
> > > > - memory_object_t iopl_mem;
> > > > + mach_port_t device,mem_dev;
> > > > + memory_object_t mem_mem;
> > >
> > > mem_mem is a rather weird variable name. Perhaps you could rename it to
> > > something clearer? Maybe mem_object...
> >
> > Well, from the point of view of Xorg, it is a device which gets mapped,
> > even if inside gnumach it is called an object.
>
> Not sure what you mean. A Mach device (mem_dev in this case) can't
> be mappend directly. You have to obtain a memory object (mem_mem)
> which you can map. In this case we have memory object that describes
> the physical RAM -- so the first "mem" and the second "mem" in this
> variable name describe two completely different things...
To be honest, I truly don't care about the name at all. All I do care
about is to get the patch commited eventually. So give us the variable
names that shall be good and let's be done with it.
Samuel
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