From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 15:25:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277BE16A4D0; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:25:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083B143D60; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:25:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i82FPlTm004737; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:25:47 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i82FPlrE004736; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:25:47 -0700 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:25:46 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20040902152546.GA3801@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200409011822.i81IMERb017602@repoman.freebsd.org> <73F8DDC079929FAA3D43CA2E@caspian.scsiguy.com> <20040902092916.GA61915@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040902092916.GA61915@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: Brooks Davis cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c src/sys/net if.c if.h X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:25:15 -0000 --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:29:16PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, 2004-Sep-01 14:44:45 -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >You could squeeze out 256 bytes if you treat 0 as meaning 256 - just like > >the SCSI protocol. >=20 > It's too late now but you could support 1020 bytes by counting 4-byte > words instead of bytes. This doesn't lose anything because the struct > will always be padded to a multiple of 4 or 8 bytes. Yah, I that occured to me as well, but too late to do anything about it. I suppose we could redefine the unused values (odd numbers and multiples of 2 by not 4) to do that, but I think I'll leave that pressure in place to encourage someone to redo the routing socket API. -- Brooks --=20 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 --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBNzt2XY6L6fI4GtQRAtB3AJ0QpoV/GIy52FlYSw2jqdeNOeFp3wCfcI/7 qRfwrCS5nRLGJDzcL1FOPM8= =nSt6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV--