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Date:      Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:58:56 +0100
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r232238 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/e1000 sys/dev/ixgbe sys/dev/netmap sys/dev/re sys/net tools/tools/netmap
Message-ID:  <20120228215856.GA99692@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <20120228203523.GB97848@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <201202271905.q1RJ52Se032771@svn.freebsd.org> <CAK2BMK4ncw9yyHwRQJfzT5=mTwn5p2neny1rbZF9sBM-q3zvJw@mail.gmail.com> <20120228073122.GC57270@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20120228203523.GB97848@zxy.spb.ru>

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On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:35:23AM +0400, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
...
> > > > ?3. The two changes above unfortunately require an API change, so while
> > > > ? ? at it add a version field and some spares to the ioctl() argument
> > > > ? ? to help detect mismatches.
> > > 
> > > Is it worth bumping __FreeBSD_version?
> > 
> > I don't think it is necessary.
> > There is basically no code that uses the netmap API except for
> > the examples in tools/tools/netmap, and i now have a NETMAP_API macro
> 
> no code in *FreeBSD base system*, yes?
> because I am write tools uses the netmap API now.

i am glad to hear that, and the NETMAP_API will serve you well
because you can use the same also on the Linux version of netmap

cheers
luigi




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