From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 4 10:32:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037F337B402; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:32:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g24IWgt67718; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:32:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:32:42 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Brooks Davis Cc: "Crist J. Clark" , Archie Cobbs , Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patches to if_loop + the interface cloning framework Message-ID: <20020304103242.A67658@iguana.icir.org> References: <200203040455.g244tr429559@arch20m.dellroad.org> <20020304101049.D87533@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020304102335.A27553@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020304102335.A27553@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:23:35AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > From a _practical_ standpoint, a loopback interface must be compiled > in at this time. However, that's not what Archie and I are arguing. > I'm arguing that since the requirement is not there in theory, we should > not be making moves which require it in practice. The direction I'd like speaking of which , would it be reasonable to merge if_disc and if_loop ? The former is basically a stripped down version of the latter, so it hardly justifies a separate device cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message