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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 2000 02:40:52 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mbuf.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006040228200.9813-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006031145320.3450-100000@green.dyndns.org>

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On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> > bde         2000/06/03 03:30:56 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/sys              mbuf.h 
> >   Log:
> >   Fixed regression of the type of the `header' member of struct pkthdr from
> >   `void *' to caddr_t in rev.1.40.  This mainly caused an annoying warning
> >   for compiling ip_input.c.
> 
> I don't get it!  A long time ago, I learned from you that caddr_t is
> supposed to be used instead of void * in the kernel.  Why is this case
> different?

I don't know how you learned that from me.  I've always said that caddr_t
should have started going away around 1980 when K&R compilers started
supporting void *.

Bruce



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