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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:13:19 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: Abstracting struct ifnet
Message-ID:  <4F3E98BF.9090105@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120217135320.GJ55075@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <338757D1-6B1E-49CF-983F-5D5851066FD3@xcllnt.net> <20120217135320.GJ55075@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2/17/12 5:53 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:16:22PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> M>  Thoughts, feedback and suggestion are welcome,
>
> Is it possible to make the structure the driver points to opaque?
>
> Once made, that would allow us to hack on the ifnet (or on its
> successor - iflogical) more aggressively without breaking ABI/API.

except for the little issue of core-dumps and netstat etc.




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