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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:20:52 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smb(4): address format
Message-ID:  <49772F44.1030806@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200901210857.22204.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <496C8C6A.2030708@icyb.net.ua> <20090115.110824.298933043.imp@bsdimp.com> <497088E6.4020908@icyb.net.ua> <200901210857.22204.jhb@freebsd.org>

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on 21/01/2009 15:57 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Friday 16 January 2009 8:17:26 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 15/01/2009 20:08 M. Warner Losh said the following:
>>> The format that is preferred on FreeBSD is xxxxxxxx0b.  That's the
>>> format that the existing IIC bridge drivers use and deal with.  I've
>>> not looked at the SMB drivers, but I went through all the iic bridge
>>> drivers in the 6.x time frame and made sure they were all consistent.
>>> If I missed the smb drivers, that's my bad.
>>>
>>> I could find no evidence that there was a format that was more
>>> preferred apart from the dozen data sheets that I'd read at the time
>>> which used the xxxxxxx0b.
>> What about the attached patch.
>> It brings ichsmb in line with this format and also adds a simple check
>> into smb(4).
> 
> Commit!
> 

I guess this would also need a note in UPDATING and some HEADS UP in
current@.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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