Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:41:30 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback device dillema Message-ID: <20030306114125.A23312@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20030306192930.GD55182@unixdaemons.com>; from hiten@unixdaemons.com on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500 References: <20030306183854.GA47557@unixdaemons.com> <20030306110011.B27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030306190632.GB55182@unixdaemons.com> <20030306111516.A19108@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030306192930.GD55182@unixdaemons.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:29:30PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > What is gained by making loopback default? > > Nothing is gained. But it's neccessary fix this, IMHO. Not to mention > that our loopback device code looks terribly ugly anyway. :-) I certaintly agree the loop interface could use some clean up. I just don't want to see the layer violation loif represents papered over by making loop default. That would be a move in the wrong direction. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Z6RlXY6L6fI4GtQRArMXAJ9OjECkg5SIlpeqthK4sVsO7gvNogCfbS4o 98eQedqFL76U+5fLlMafNGk= =Cy7m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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