Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:34:10 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: RFC: interface description Message-ID: <20090813182918.S93661@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <4A844FF2.9000307@elischer.org> References: <4A83EEA8.5080202@delphij.net> <4A840DA1.600@yandex.ru> <4A844FF2.9000307@elischer.org>
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Julian Elischer wrote: > Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >> Xin LI wrote: >>> While playing with some OpenBSD installation I found that they have an >>> interesting feature - adding description to a NIC. This is useful for >>> system administrators to "tag" the interface, also, the ladvd program >>> has a feature to use the SIOCSIFDESCR ioctl to document the remote CDP >> >> Something similar was rejected at least two times :) >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83622 >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/110720 > > not rejected.. > > suffered from lack of enthusiasm maybe. My point has always been - if I have to add/do an ioctl I can always also use a library call that will read it from a .txt, .xml, .db file or whatever and I don't have to go to the kernel, handle all the string length problems there, ... especially as the kernel cannot do anything with that string. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb What was I talking about and who are you again?
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