From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jul 27 4:17:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22BB37B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 04:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3D643E31 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 04:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 8294B535D; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:17:52 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Brooks Davis Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching to if_xname from if_name and if_unit References: <20020726211050.A30598@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 27 Jul 2002 13:17:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020726211050.A30598@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brooks Davis writes: > NetBSD and OpenBSD have replaced the "char *if_name" and "int if_unit" > members of struct ifnet with "char if_xname[IFNAMESIZ]". I propose that > we follow suit. > [...] > What do other people think? Go for it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message