Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:05:47 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_var.h Message-ID: <20011214140547.A53193@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <200112141938.fBEJcao39840@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200112141938.fBEJcao39840@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:38:36AM -0800, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > jlemon 2001/12/14 11:38:36 PST > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > sys/net if_var.h > Log: > MFC: r1.37; add entries for network device capabilitis. > > This is done in a different form; instead of adding new entries to > 'struct ifnet', we coopt several unused fields in the structure instead, > in order to preserve binary compatability with previous releases. I don't understand this. Since you haven't put a #define for if_done and if_poll_recv, any code that might have used them is going to break, so you might as well have just replaced the old fields with the new ones. Am I wrong ? cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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