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Date:      Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:33:20 +0400
From:      Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        ohauer@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD9 ifnet + Member Function void (*if_watchdog)(struct ifnet *ifp)
Message-ID:  <CAE-mSOJBGr93_TcvxVGpzRuf6B-Qg2YefqUy3QMe67P1n0DL3Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1 August 2011 03:09, Olli Hauer <ohauer@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to build VMware modules for FreeBSD9-BETA1 and noticed
> the ifnet Member Function
>
> =A0void (*if_watchdog)(struct ifnet *ifp)
>
> was removed from net/if_var.h.
>
> Is there a suggested replacement?

Per-ifnet watchdogs were transformed to private per-softc callout timer
in earlier 9.x. See this thread for details:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-November/023677.html

>
> PS:
> The man page for ifnet(9) does not reflect the remove of this
> (now missing) Member Function.

It is massively outdated. I plan to update it some day when I get
some more spare time/review.

--=20
wbr,
pluknet



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