Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:46:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: luigi@info.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: remy@boostworks.com, archie@whistle.com, luigi@FreeBSD.ORG, csg@waterspout.com, pavel@alum.mit.edu, nsayer@sftw.com, julian@elischer.org, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph Message-ID: <200004261846.LAA59380@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200004261431.QAA24137@info.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Apr 26, 2000 04:31:41 pm"
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Luigi Rizzo writes:
> > 1) create an ether_input2() that {bpf_tap(), brige(), m_adj();
> > ether_input()}
> > 2) Call ether_input2() from any simple drivers doing the ripping.
> > 3) keep all 'strange' or not-reviewed drivers using the standard
> > ether_input()
> > 4) carefully move all these drivers needing review to ether_input2()
> > 5) merge ether_input2 into ether_input when there will be no more
> > driver using the standard ether_input.
>
> which is basically my proposal, with step 5 left to the guys
> in northern europe who do all the dirty works :)
Isn't this essentially what I've already done (steps 1-5)?
-Archie
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