Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:16:18 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_ethersubr.c Message-ID: <16556.917856978@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:14:54 EST." <199902010414.XAA14627@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <199902010414.XAA14627@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: ><<On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:17:19 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > >> Slight cleanups. There were 2 ways of getting the arpcom from the ifp. >> Both equally bogus. Make it a macro so that we can pretend it's not >> bogus and maybe make it less so some time in the future. > >Neither of them were bogus that I can recall. The definition of the >Ethernet API is that `interface softc always starts with an arpcom'. >This has been the clear, unambiguous mechanism since ARP arrived way >back in 4.2, and is fully supported by Standard C. But it is still far less obvious than having an explicit pointer... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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