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Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 ifnet + Member Function void (*if_watchdog)(struct
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On 2011-08-01 08:33, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 1 August 2011 03:09, Olli Hauer <ohauer@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just tried to build VMware modules for FreeBSD9-BETA1 and noticed
>> the ifnet Member Function
>>
>>  void (*if_watchdog)(struct ifnet *ifp)
>>
>> was removed from net/if_var.h.
>>
>> Is there a suggested replacement?
> 
> Per-ifnet watchdogs were transformed to private per-softc callout timer
> in earlier 9.x. See this thread for details:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-November/023677.html
> 
>>
>> PS:
>> The man page for ifnet(9) does not reflect the remove of this
>> (now missing) Member Function.
> 
> It is massively outdated. I plan to update it some day when I get
> some more spare time/review.
> 

Ahh, thanks for the hint!

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Thanks,
olli