Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:58:05 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig(8) refactoring -- YACC grammar now online Message-ID: <20031130135805.GA80639@saboteur.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <3FC9DEBA.BD5AC227@freebsd.org> References: <20031130092301.GA98871@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <3FC9DEBA.BD5AC227@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:12:42PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > What I've thinking about a lot is to make the networking system and > ifconfig sort of class-based like newbus and geom. Look at: http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/nifconfig/nifconfig-design.txt There is a pending change to if_gre to enable it to be easily classified in this way; ifconfig would simply query the interface for its if_type. This is one way to do it without having to change struct ifnet. We could add a new field, but avoiding changing the ABI is a Good Thing. BMS
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