Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:11:26 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav <finrod@ewox.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: s/bpfilter/bpf/ Message-ID: <3638BDDE.69C6C0B9@tdx.co.uk> References: <5159.909675209@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > While in Arnhem, I discussed renaming the bpfilter pseudo-device to > > bpf. There seemed to be agreement that it would be more consistent > > (amongst other items, the device nodes are named /dev/bpf*, and the > > man page is bpf(4)). > > I agree that this change is overdue, but I also wonder whether or not > you could do this so that ``pseudo-device bpfilter'' would continue to > be a synonym for bpf. It wouldn't appear in any documentation or be > suggested, but would at least continue to work for those with old > config files. Or even better have something at 'config' time that says: "Warning - BPFILTER is being phased out! Please replace 'bpfilter' with 'bpf' in future" (This is coming from somone who knows not a lot how 'config KERNEL' works, but is still impressed when it spots things like un-specified controllers for wired down SCSI devices) ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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