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Re: [llnl-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-devel] fiid release


From: Anand Babu
Subject: Re: [llnl-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-devel] fiid release
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 03:43:08 -0800
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,----[ Ian Zimmerman <address@hidden> ]
| Albert Chu <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > Hey AB,
| > 
| > Just a few thoughts/questions based on my initial skim.  I haven't
| > looked at it super-thoroughly yet ...
| > 
| > 1) Given the new framework, I think passing in u_int8_t ** pointers
| > and having the function return a buffer may be better than having
| > the user create the u_int8_t * buffer.  I prefer the later, but
| > given your framework style, I think the former fits better.  I
| > dunno, maybe we should wait until later to decide, no need to decide
| > now.
| > 
| 
| I prefer the latter too when possible (when the caller knows the size
| of the buffer).  Which is not always.
`----
User can calculate the size using fiid_obj_len (obj)



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