Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:12:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Bill Baumann <bbaumann@isilon.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inconsistency between net/if.c and several ethernet drivers Message-ID: <200207171812.g6HICmm8097762@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207170942280.35007-100000@isilon.com> References: <20020716180110.E4709-100000@gateway.posi.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207170942280.35007-100000@isilon.com>
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<<On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:58:12 -0700 (PDT), Bill Baumann <bbaumann@isilon.com> said: > Why bother with a if_softc field when the interface and softc pointer are > supposed to be the same? Also, the very old Lance driver (lnc) has this > problem. It makes me wonder how true we are to TCP/IP Illustrated... if_softc was added to pacify those who either didn't understand the C language, or thought they had a good reason why the softc structure had to begin with some other structure than ifnet. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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