From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 11 3:58:45 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42A937B6D6; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 121D314C53; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:57:35 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_ioctl.c References: <200201100536.g0A5aao01807@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020110191209.A318@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20020110203918.A440@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Jan 2002 12:57:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020110203918.A440@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar writes: > This reintroduces the bugs reported by our users. How should those be > fixed then? Please provide references to those bugs. > In the original (ie your) implementation translation was dependent > on the positional index (ie if_index) and as such could change more > often than is the case now. Especially since non-ethernet interfaces > could cause the translation of ethernet interfaces to change. No. Once an interface has been assigned an if_index, it keeps that index until it is detached. > Can you explain why the positional independence of eth interfaces is > bad in your opinion? It's not, but this is not the correct way to implement it. > This is a side issue. If the commits are reverted linprocfs works > again. If the commits stay, then obviosly we think that it's correct > and know that we need to fix linprocfs. Wrong. Linprocfs doesn't need fixing. Please back out your incorrect, poorly though-out and poorly tested commits, or I will. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message