Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:24:16 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Maxime Henrion <mux@sneakerz.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patches to if_loop + the interface cloning framework Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203011122520.12215-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020212155646.A26408@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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I think loopback is not really 'optional' and should come as soon as you have any networking at all. i.e. I think it should be removed as an option/module and made dependent on having any networking. On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:44:53PM -0600, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > > I've updated the patch at the same location, adding a panic() in case > > the creation of lo0 fails. I'll be interested in removing the KLD > > stuff from this file since it's not working anyway, and adds some error > > checking, but that will be a bit later ;-) > > Looks good though error checking would be nice. ;-) I'm not convinced > that removing the module support is a good idea. I'd much rather move > in the other direction in general. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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