From owner-freebsd-isdn Tue Apr 20 0:34:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2B215309 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc2.ppp.net [194.64.12.42]) by mail.ppp.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA16090 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:32:08 +0200 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m10ZV0j-002ZjZC; Tue, 20 Apr 99 09:32 MET DST Received: from bert.kts.org([194.55.156.2]) (2075 bytes) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with P:smtp/R:smart_host/T:uux (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:22:15 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.103 1998-Oct-9 #3 built 1998-Dec-9) Received: from localhost (1627 bytes) by bert.kts.org via sendmail with P:stdio/R:smart_host/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:22:19 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.103 1998-Oct-9 #4 built 1998-Dec-26) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: unit number conversion (was: Re: new-bus changes break i4b) In-Reply-To: <199904191945.VAA28794@peedub.muc.de> from Gary Jennejohn at "Apr 19, 1999 9:45: 6 pm" To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org (ISDN for BSD) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:22:19 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >I promised to clean this up a long ago (as this cleanup will remove several > >gross hacks we needed for the NetBSD part to make a softc* <-> unit > >conversion), and I will actually do it. Hellmuth scared me with hard > >requirements what I should not break with such a cleanup (several things of > >which I can't actually test myself), so it has been delayed. Just to get this right: the unit number is used in every layer-to-layer communication call and is a very basic part of the design of the whole isdn4bsd stack from the userland down to the hardware. Changing this fundamental design concept will produce a major workload which i'm not able to handle, so if anyone wants to make this change, thats fine with me as long as he takes the workload to get i4b into a shape (regarding the way the code is written, documented and with the stability of at least the current code) it has now. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe We all live in a yellow subroutine, yellow subroutine, yellow subroutine ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message