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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:26:09 -0800
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Sepherosa Ziehau <sephe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 133975 for review
Message-ID:  <479875D1.3080205@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <200801240705.m0O75Q4o085638@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=133975
>
> Change 133975 by sephe@sephe_zealot:sam_wifi on 2008/01/24 07:04:31
>
> 	Duplicate the ieee80211_{scan_result,sta_info} structure and add
> 	{isr,isi}_capinfo2 at the end of the structure.  Rename old
> 	structure to structure_name_v1.
> 	
>   
If you look in ieee80211_ioctl.c you'll see similar logic for handling a 
compat change.  What I typically do is change the public structure 
definition and keep the old/compat def only in the place where it is 
used.  This insures noone will write user code that uses the old api.

    Sam



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