Allocating AF constants for vendors.

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Bruce M. Simpson <bms at FreeBSD.org> [070904 03:08] wrote:
> >As you can see we are defering the "bloat".
> >Does that make sense?
> >  
> 
> I follow but it still doesn't really make sense.
> 
> Granted, you are deferring the growth of arrays sized off AF_MAX but 
> only ever by 1 slot.
> What if Vendor Z wants to add 25 entries at once?

Then as long as they allocate odd numbered entries they should
be fine.  FreeBSD's AF_MAX does not need to change to accomidate
a vendor, it only has to restrict itself to even numbered slots.

> We would also be tying ourselves down to the notion of a vendor in any 
> AF_ allocation. Is this an avenue that people are happy to pursue?

Yes, until the "horrific" problem of the statically sized arrays
is "fixed".  Then the allocation policy can change.


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- Alfred Perlstein