Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:36:44 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c src/sys/net if.c if.h Message-ID: <200409021136.44582.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20040902152546.GA3801@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200409011822.i81IMERb017602@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040902092916.GA61915@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20040902152546.GA3801@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Thursday 02 September 2004 08:25 am, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:29:16PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-Sep-01 14:44:45 -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > >You could squeeze out 256 bytes if you treat 0 as meaning 256 - > > > just like the SCSI protocol. > > > > It's too late now but you could support 1020 bytes by counting > > 4-byte words instead of bytes. This doesn't lose anything because > > the struct will always be padded to a multiple of 4 or 8 bytes. > > Yah, I that occured to me as well, but too late to do anything about > it. I suppose we could redefine the unused values (odd numbers and > multiples of 2 by not 4) to do that, but I think I'll leave that > pressure in place to encourage someone to redo the routing socket > API. BTW, in case nobody noticed.. nothing sets the routing socket abi version number, and nothing checks it. No versions are even defined. Well.. version 0 is implicit I guess. :-) -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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