removing if_withname()
Bruce Evans
bde at zeta.org.au
Wed Feb 4 00:39:21 PST 2004
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Brooks Davis wrote:
> Bruce pointed out that if_withname is inconsistent about IFNAMSIZ. I
> was looking at it and cleaned it up, but then I realized that it is a
> really inefficient implementation of ifnet_byindex(sdl->sdl_index). It
> turns out that it's also completely unused so I'd like to remove it
> entirely rather then fixing it since it's both broken and pointless. Is
> there any reason not to do so?
It seems to be a pat of KAME that has never been used in FreeBSD
(net/if.c rev.1.77).
Bruce
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