svn commit: r266974 - in head/sys: dev/dc dev/fxp dev/mii dev/netmap kern net

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Juli Mallett <jmallett at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Log:
>   Introduce a procedural interface to the ifnet structure.
*snip*

> Could you say a little bit about why so few reviewers?

Sorry, my bad. The change was proposed and discussed on arch@ with
pointers to the diff. Previous incarnations have been sent to net@
as well. I should have mentioned something along those lines.

>  Also, why "if_t" rather than an opaque "struct ifnet" to minimize churn, and also not conflict with other "if_t" types one might be using in third-party kernel modules.

This has been covered on arch@ as well. It's probably best if I refer
you to the email thread on arch@ so as to not pull emails out of
context:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-May/015379.html

>   It's a pretty general name, and that seems problematic.  In general am enthused about this happening, just minor implementation concerns.

It's appreciated.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel at xcllnt.net


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