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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Allocating AF constants for vendors.
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* Max Laier <max@love2party.net> [070822 14:38] wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> [...]
> > On the other hand, if you don't need to reference these constants in
> > the kernel at all, and they will all exist beyond AF_MAX, then you can
> > disregard what I've said and append them to the rest of the list.
> 
> Please make sure to leave a bit of space between AF_MAX and your constants 
> so we could still grow AF_MAX if the need should ever arise.

Hmm, that could work, but I think we have the same problem, we depend on AF_MAX.

I could look into a more dynamic way of allocating... possibly.

-Alfred