Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:31:34 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: merge bpfattach into if_attach... Message-ID: <199712110231.SAA14274@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:46:19 PST." <19971210164619.03585@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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>#if NBPFILTER > 0 > bpfattach(&sc->sc_if, DLT_SLIP, SLIP_HDRLEN); >#endif > >and just before that code is a call to if_attach... is there any >problem by merging these two together? and then in if_attach if Oh, and one more comment, doing the above would require an internal change to the way if_attach is called in all of the device drivers so that the information about the link layer header size and interface speed/type can be passed in. I think that is a bad idea - for one thing, it breaks compatibility with third party drivers. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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