Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 14:03:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gated broken, needs recompilation Message-ID: <199608222103.OAA14301@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9608221644.AA04261@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Aug 22, 96 12:44:33 pm
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> > gated seem have broken sometime in August, it fails to get any info on
> > devices from the kernel, and thus either crashes on failed assertion or is
> > unable to determine router id.
>
> > This can be worked around by recompiling, but no more single binary for all
> > routers, if this was intentional change. Any ideas what was the change ?
>
> The size and arrangement of some of the fields in `struct ifnet' was
> moved around to make a better management interface possible. That's
> the price you pay for running -current.
I now better understand the Windows practive of putting interface
version numbers in their drivers and crap.
Makes you long for each structure to start with:
struct {
long version; /* version number of interface*/
...
And each initialization to start with:
struct xxx yyy = {
96082200, /* 22 Aug 1996, version 00*/
...
Bletch.
Then, of course, some idiot would insist on the kernel carrying around
all the old interfaces, just like NetWare and Windows...
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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