From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 1 00:17:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10978 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10970; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16558; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:16:19 +0100 (CET) To: Garrett Wollman cc: Julian Elischer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_ethersubr.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:14:54 EST." <199902010414.XAA14627@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:16:18 +0100 Message-ID: <16556.917856978@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199902010414.XAA14627@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: >< 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