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Date:      Sat, 3 Nov 2001 09:11:43 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
To:        net@freebsd.org, mjacob@feral.com
Subject:   softc, ifnet and arpcom overlay
Message-ID:  <20011103091143.B47299@iguana.aciri.org>

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Hi,
i remember early in october this topic came out,
but while i can easily find out where the arpcom/ifnet overlay is used,
i am not totally certain about the softc/ifnet overlay.

For first, there is a reference from ifnet to the corresponding
softc, so in principle the overlay is totally unnecessary.

Secondly, the only two places where I could find this assumption
being actually used seem to be easily fixable:

    net/if_iso88025subr.c - line 139 @iso88025_ioctl()

		bcopy(((struct arpcom *)ifp->if_softc)->ac_enaddr,
		      (caddr_t) sa->sa_data, ISO88025_ADDR_LEN);

    here, the "->if_softc" should be just omitted because
    ifp can be already cast to a (struct arpcom *)


    net/if_vlan.c - lnie 528 @vlan_ioctl()

		bcopy(((struct arpcom *)ifp->if_softc)->ac_enaddr,
		      (caddr_t) sa->sa_data, ETHER_ADDR_LEN);

    same as above (these two sections seem to be copied one
    from the other)

Is there any other place to look at ?

	cheers
	luigi
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