removing if_withname()

[Hajimu UMEMOTO]

Hi,

>>>>> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:39:06 +1100 (EST)
>>>>> Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au> said:

> 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?

bde> It seems to be a pat of KAME that has never been used in FreeBSD
bde> (net/if.c rev.1.77).

Yes, once, it was introduced during 1st KAME merge, it is not used in
current code in FreeBSD nor KAME.  So, I believe it is safe to nuke
it.

Sincerely,

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