Date: 11 Jan 2002 12:57:35 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_ioctl.c Message-ID: <xzppu4hgkwg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020110203918.A440@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200201100536.g0A5aao01807@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpy9j5hecf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020110191209.A318@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <xzpu1tth859.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020110203918.A440@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes: > This reintroduces the bugs reported by our users. How should those be > fixed then? Please provide references to those bugs. > In the original (ie your) implementation translation was dependent > on the positional index (ie if_index) and as such could change more > often than is the case now. Especially since non-ethernet interfaces > could cause the translation of ethernet interfaces to change. No. Once an interface has been assigned an if_index, it keeps that index until it is detached. > Can you explain why the positional independence of eth interfaces is > bad in your opinion? It's not, but this is not the correct way to implement it. > This is a side issue. If the commits are reverted linprocfs works > again. If the commits stay, then obviosly we think that it's correct > and know that we need to fix linprocfs. Wrong. Linprocfs doesn't need fixing. Please back out your incorrect, poorly though-out and poorly tested commits, or I will. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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