Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: committers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph Message-ID: <200004271740.KAA66052@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200004262034.WAA45549@luxren2.boostworks.com> from Remy Nonnenmacher at "Apr 26, 2000 10:34:31 pm"
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CC: to -committers I'm planning to check in this patch soon: ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/misc/net.cleanup.patch.3 The goal of the patch is simply to move the BPF and BRIDGE taps on Ethernet frame input from the individual drivers up into ether_input(), while attempting to preserve any existing "avoid unnecessarily reading packets" optimizations (specifically in the if_ed.c and if_ie.c drivers). The result: 1140 lines removed 187 lines added This patch has been reviewed by freebsd-net already, but I'm trying to give a lot of warning because.. o I don't have all 47 types of Ethernet cards to test. In fact my -current machine only has one so I can't even test BRIDGE'ing. At least BPF still works :-) o It's not completely clear which drivers are shared with other versions of 'BSD -- if I've missed any, they will need some #ifdef __FreeBSD__ modifications. Thanks! -Archie P.S.: there are lots of other "cleanups" that could be done; please discuss these on freebsd-net (i.e., remove -committers). ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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