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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:36:30 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules Makefile
Message-ID:  <43FA98CE.3010000@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060220224724.GJ65002@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <200602200250.k1K2o9WQ060573@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060220224724.GJ65002@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>On Monday, 20 February 2006 at  2:50:09 +0000, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  
>
>>gallatin    2006-02-20 02:50:09 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    sys/modules          Makefile
>>  Log:
>>  Hook the myri10ge driver to the i386 and amd64 module builds.
>>    
>>
>
>Is this device really going to be called myri10ge?  That's at least
>double the length of any other device.  Can't we come up with a
>shorter name?
>  
>

not to mention that in divert(4) we store the interface in the 8 char  
area of a sockaddr_in that is left over
after everything else is filled in we only have the 8 bytes of the zero 
section so hide this info,
so the 8 bytes name given here is right on the edge, and I don't know if 
it is all tested for null termination
requirements.

>Greg
>--
>See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
>  
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