Re: RFC: Resource Management
Drew Eckhardt (drew@poohsticks.org)
Mon, 04 Mar 1996 00:10:37 -0700
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.