netgraph only on i386/ia64 - why ?

[John Polstra]

On 18-Aug-2004 Julian Elischer wrote:
> John Polstra wrote:
>> 
>> There is one problem with netgraph on 64-bit platforms.  The ng_msghdr
>> struct is 52 bytes / 4-byte aligned (see ng_message.h).  That means
>> the message payload is not well-aligned for 64-bit platforms.  It
>> would be nice to fix that (and bump NG_VERSION, of course).  Nobody
>> ever guaranteed that the message payload would be aligned, but it
>> makes things a lot more convenient.
> 
> if we do this we should do it now so that we have a consistent ABI from 5.3 on..
> 
> scott (et al), should we pad an extra 4 bytes in this now?
> it's low/no risk, but better now than after 5.3 has been released..

I'd really like to see this change happen.  Julian, would it require
bumping just NG_VERSION, or should NG_ABI_VERSION change too?

John