svn commit: r196797 - in head: sys/net sys/netinet usr.bin/netstat

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:19:12PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >On Sep 4, 2009, at 00:44 , Bruce Simpson wrote:
> >
> >>George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
> >>>Author: gnn
> >>>Date: Thu Sep  3 21:10:57 2009
> >>>New Revision: 196797
> >>>URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/196797
> >>>
> >>>Log:
> >>>Add ARP statistics to the kernel and netstat.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Thanks very much for this change.
> >>Any chance this struct can get explicitly versioned (i.e. as for struct 
> >>igmpstat) as it is a new struct?
> >>
> >
> >bz@ and I will likely be tweaking this over time, so we can probably do 
> >that.
> 
> I am not entirely sure what "versioning" that struct would help?
> 
> ARP is from the early 80s, we've got 8 variables and 4 spares and
> I cannot forsee any major rewrite of the code or the protocoll to
> gather a lot more stats anymore.

If there is a way to version those structures it will be good to do it
even if it isn't going to change in the future. This way it can be used
as an example for others to follow.

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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