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Date:      Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:34:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src UPDATING src/sys/sys param.h src/sys/net if.c if.h
Message-ID:  <16691.40287.478937.342838@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040830213003.GA24404@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <200408300629.i7U6TQ5C088279@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040830155015.A40262@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20040830213003.GA24404@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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Brooks Davis writes:
 > 
 > I don't think so.  The main offenders will be programs that walk the
 > interface list via libkvm and programs that use struct if_data.
 > ifconfig does neither.  If you haven't recompiled a module, a
 > non-working ifconfig might result if by some miracle you didn't get a
 > panic on attach.

ppc does not even build modules, so that's out.  An older ifconfig
pukes, while a new one works, so some sort of kernel/userland ABI must
have changed in the last week.  Has the data exported by sysctl changed
recently?

Debugging here is less than fun, as there is no gdb yet.

Drew



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