From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 6 11:41:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485BF37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:41:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50AC43F93 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h26JfUJu026082; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:41:31 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h26JfUC4026081; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:41:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:41:30 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Hiten Pandya Cc: Brooks Davis , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback device dillema Message-ID: <20030306114125.A23312@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com> <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030306190632.GB55182@unixdaemons.com> <20030306111516.A19108@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030306192930.GD55182@unixdaemons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030306192930.GD55182@unixdaemons.com>; from hiten@unixdaemons.com on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > What is gained by making loopback default? >=20 > Nothing is gained. But it's neccessary fix this, IMHO. Not to mention > that our loopback device code looks terribly ugly anyway. :-) I certaintly agree the loop interface could use some clean up. I just don't want to see the layer violation loif represents papered over by making loop default. That would be a move in the wrong direction. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Z6RlXY6L6fI4GtQRArMXAJ9OjECkg5SIlpeqthK4sVsO7gvNogCfbS4o 98eQedqFL76U+5fLlMafNGk= =Cy7m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message