From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 12:16:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A887216A422; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:16:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBE543D53; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:16:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from p54A3C62B.dip.t-dialin.net [84.163.198.43] (helo=donor.laier.local) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1EUkCH0NqJ-0002em; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:16:01 +0200 From: Max Laier To: Robert Watson Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:15:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200510260557.j9Q5vZ7J076711@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051026093536.GF41520@cell.sick.ru> <20051026105820.X32255@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20051026105820.X32255@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1391944.u5ptIuUrKn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510261416.09346.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Yar Tikhiy , Gleb Smirnoff , src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_carp.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:16:03 -0000 --nextPart1391944.u5ptIuUrKn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:58, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > R> I think we may actually be in need of either a new flag, > > R> IFF_OKSODONTTREATTHISQUITELIKEANINTERFACE, or maybe a more reliable > > way R> for protocols to ask if an interface is a loopback interface or > > not. > > > > I'd prefer to rewrite those subsystems that use interface layer but > > aren't actually interfaces. I have plans to do this for CARP. > > At least in the case of if_disc, this won't help. I'm not quite sure why > if_disc is IFF_LOOPBACK. Sad answer seems to be: copy and paste. IFF_LOOPBACK is part of 1.1 which= =20 also contains the following comment: /* * Discard interface driver for protocol testing and timing. * (Based on the loopback.) */ So it might be a good idea to get rid of it and work from there. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1391944.u5ptIuUrKn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDX3OJXyyEoT62BG0RAnHxAJ9Qg9t6x/Zu+JHZE+UmS986W9KO3QCfVDzs aRWDTyxsRbJy2gc9+D0ZbOE= =POH8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1391944.u5ptIuUrKn--