Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:32:48 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: bikeshed for all! Message-ID: <20071213221607.Q81630@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <4761AC47.2010904@elischer.org> References: <476061FD.8050500@elischer.org> <200712130021.56473.max@love2party.net> <476072DB.3090600@elischer.org> <200712131549.21669.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <476190F2.2030105@elischer.org> <47619502.5070404@FreeBSD.org> <4761AC47.2010904@elischer.org>
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Julian Elischer wrote:
Let the colour be green-blue-blue.
> Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
>> How about "setfib"?
>>
>> I strongly believe we should deprecate the use of the term "routing" where
>> the BSD forwarding plane is concerned, whilst familiar to many it is
>> misleading as to what that part of the system is actually doing.
>
> maybe, but it would be a large surprise to everyone who expects that
> structure be be called the routing table as it still is in most systems.
Life is like a clock: You can work constantly
and be right all the time, or not work at all
and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
Things changed the last 13-15 years (route.c should be about that old).
I'd suggest that if you do it, do it all right, like BMS says, or why did
you ask in first place?
> In OpenBSD they have decided to call the in-kernel decriptor 'id' but I'd
> rather go with tableid or maybe tbl_num, because 'id' is too generic.
> 'tid' is already thread id.
Both id or tableid are, for telling you what it is, like 'void' if
there is no strong context. I can easily think of a dozen different
'tables' and even more 'ids'.
I'd suggest to go with any kind of spelling of 'fibid', 'fib_id',
'FIBid', or ... as that's what it is called these days.
/bz
--
Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
Software is harder than hardware so better get it right the first time.
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