cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 ifnet.9 src/sys/compat/ndis kern_ndis.c subr_ndis.c src/sys/contrib/altq/altq altq_rio.c src/sys/contrib/dev/oltr if_oltr.c if_oltr_pci.c if_oltrvar.h src/sys/contrib/pf/net if_pflog.c if_pflog.h if_pfsync.c ...

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200506101649.j5AGnOPu077043 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Brooks Davis writ
es:

>  Log:
>  Stop embedding struct ifnet at the top of driver softcs. [...]
>  
>  This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
>  will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
>  
>  Other changes of note:
>   - Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
>     Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.

If this is a macro, don't you still encode, if not the size at least
part of the layout in the kernel ABI ?

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