Abstracting struct ifnet

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 17 18:28:47 UTC 2012


On 2/17/12 5:53 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:16:22PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> M>  Thoughts, feedback and suggestion are welcome,
>
> Is it possible to make the structure the driver points to opaque?
>
> Once made, that would allow us to hack on the ifnet (or on its
> successor - iflogical) more aggressively without breaking ABI/API.

except for the little issue of core-dumps and netstat etc.



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