From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 21 06:37:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11093 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 06:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oreo.adsu.bellsouth.com (oreo.adsu.bellsouth.com [205.152.173.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11088 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 06:37:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ck@oreo.adsu.bellsouth.com) Received: (from ck@localhost) by oreo.adsu.bellsouth.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA31266; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:36:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ck) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:36:31 -0500 From: Christian Kuhtz To: Doug Rabson Cc: Mike Smith , Christian Kuhtz , "David O'Brien" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLD naming Message-ID: <19990121093631.A31170@oreo.adsu.bellsouth.com> References: <199901210556.VAA06281@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug Rabson on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 09:34:28AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 09:34:28AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I guess it depends on how fancy we want to get. Here are some examples > > that I've been rolling around; some are fanciful, some practical) > > > > dev_ generic device (eg. dev_sio) > > bus_ bus support (eg. bus_pci) > > netif_ network interface (eg. netif_ed) > > netproto_ network protocol (eg. netproto_arp) > > netdomain_ network domain (eg. netdomain_ip) How is the difference between netproto & netdomain defined? I'm running into a case where I can easily turn the stack upside down (say, running frame-relay over IP over MPLS in an IP tunnel over PPP -- that's almost working actually). It sounds like netdomain is somehow higher up in the stack than netproto.. even though they're all protocols. Comments? Cheers, Chris -- "Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree; that smells *awful*." -- /usr/bin/fortune [Disclaimer: I speak for myself and my views are my own and not in any way to be construed as the views of BellSouth Corporation. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message