Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:48:37 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy), cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c Message-ID: <38685.932752117@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:34:08 PDT." <199907231734.KAA88336@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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In message <199907231734.KAA88336@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" write s: >> >> I would advocate the ether_input API. I have never heard of a 3rd >> party ethernet driver, and considering the number of changes we >> introduce between 3.x and 4.x anyway, driver compatibility is >> already pretty much shot anyway, so I think we should fix the >> API to do it "right" rather than fight for a compatibility which >> is at best of only marginal advantage to anybody. > >What about ET Inc's wan cards, if I recall Dennis screams everytime >FreeBSD changes the network layer API. Well, Dennis will have to scream. I certainly don't think what we're talking about here would put him out of business, and I'm not willing to hold up progress in any area where we have one screaming 3rd party developer. As I said above, the changes between 3 and 4 are pretty vast anyway... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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