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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:14:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sys/net if_ethersubr.c
Message-ID:  <199902010414.XAA14627@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199901310817.AAA80268@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199901310817.AAA80268@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:17:19 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

>   Slight cleanups. There were 2 ways of getting the arpcom from the ifp.
>   Both equally bogus. Make it a macro so that we can pretend it's not
>   bogus and maybe make it less so some time in the future.
  
Neither of them were bogus that I can recall.  The definition of the
Ethernet API is that `interface softc always starts with an arpcom'.
This has been the clear, unambiguous mechanism since ARP arrived way
back in 4.2, and is fully supported by Standard C.

-GAWollman

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