From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 6 14:10:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EC737B406 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:10:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DF343FDD for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h26MABRv002302 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:10:11 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id h26MA6c76946; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:10:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15975.51006.529064.198196@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:10:06 -0500 (EST) To: Hiten Pandya Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback device dillema In-Reply-To: <20030306192930.GD55182@unixdaemons.com> 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiten Pandya writes: > Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:15:16AM -0800) wrote: > > Not to mention: > > > > netinet6/{in6_pcb.c,in6_src.c,ip6_input.c,ip6_output.c,nd6.c} > > > 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. :-) Why bother with a non-problem like this that's only likely to create a bikeshed? Work on something that matters. For example, a better use of your time might be to convert a network driver to use busdma, or to be SMP safe. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message