[openbeosnetteam] Re: Progress report

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:32:22 CET (+0100)

> > Me too, and for a reworked naming scheme (proper prefixes, init/
> > shutdown calls: right now, we have destroy, delete, shutdown,
> > whatever).
> yes, I'm aware and have tried to tidy up in my recent changes...

Nice!

> This isn't as easy as it sounds :( I've had to have a lot of these as
> functions from core, which isn't a problem, it's just a long list. 
> why? We
> want all mbufs centrally allocated, and so any function that touches 
> an
> allocation/free must be done by the core code.

Why? As long as all the mbufs are allocated in the kernel, where is the 
problem?

> The kernel defines a timer and so I've used that for the kernel code 
> so far.
> I'm guessing that's where you got your idea from?:)

Not really - but that makes the net_timer superfluous :)

> Hope you're feeling better soon.

Me too, thanks!

Adios...
   Axel.



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