From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 09:26:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA05013 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:26:23 -0700 Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA05007 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:26:22 -0700 Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0t3mw4-0003wOC; Fri, 13 Oct 95 09:26 PDT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA01971; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 17:26:17 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_detach() In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:30:52 -0400." <199510131630.MAA10070@etinc.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 17:26:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1969.813601577@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >> > >> Is there such an animal done or planned? > > > >Not that I know of. > > > >If we had it, we could use it for pccard too. > > With dynamic interfaces (like SVCs in X.25 and frame relay) it would be nice > if you could attach/detach when a connection was made and dropped rather > than have the interfaces just hanging around. I'm pretty sure that system V > has this for their loadable modules also. Sure thing. Shouldn't be too bad to do, just detach from a bunch of lists and other weird structures. Send the patches to Garrett when you think they are ok :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. It will be some time yet before progress goes too far... (Poul Henningsen)