Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:25:48 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: max@love2party.net Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, thompsa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c if.h if_ethersubr.c if_llc.h if_types.h if_var.h src/sys/netinet if_ether.c src/sys/sys sockio.h Message-ID: <20050605.222548.50586913.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200506060615.03647.max@love2party.net> References: <200506050313.j553DDw0014630@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050605.211805.76955371.imp@bsdimp.com> <200506060615.03647.max@love2party.net>
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Max Laier <max@love2party.net> writes:
: On Monday 06 June 2005 05:18, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <200506050313.j553DDw0014630@repoman.freebsd.org>
: >
: > Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > : Add hooks into the networking layer to support if_bridge. This changes
: > : struct ifnet so a buildworld is necessary.
: >
: > Can one at least ifconfig the IP address of a network interface with a
: > new kernel/old ifconfig and old kernel/new ifconfig?
:
: ifconfig uses plain ioctl's for that, it doesn't know anything about struct
: ifnet. What suffers from changes like this are programs that use kmem(4) to
: access the ifnet list directly. A grep turns up: routed(8), ifmcstat(8) and
: netstat(1), but there might be others. A buildworld is best when in doubt.
:
: To answer your concern, there should be no problem with ifconfig.
OK. I was worried this might break the 'nfs mounted source/object'
upgrade path. Sounds like it won't. Thanks for the confirmation.
Warner
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