Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:40:50 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <max@vega.com> Cc: ikostov@otel.net (Iasen Kostov), julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer), sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG (Maxim Sobolev), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing size of if_flags field in the ifnet structure [patch Message-ID: <20020816234050.6B56E2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200208161222.g7GCM8Rt005388@vega.vega.com>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > There is no much point in this patch, because it will increase size of
> > > struct ifreq, which means that no ioctl's from older apps will be accept
ed
> > > anyway. Therefore, there is no difference between those two, while my
> > > approach is obviously cleaner.
> >
> > It does not increase size of struct ifreq.
> > This is a union not a struct as You see.
>
> Oh, yes, you are obviously correct. However, I still wonder if your patch
> is endianless-safe.
FWIW, for 4.x, endianness is not a problem since all the 4.x platforms
are little-endian. For 5.x we should make a clean break.
Cheers,
-Peter
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