Re: adding if_dev member to struct ifnet
From: Daniel C. Sobral (dcs_at_tcoip.com.br)
Date: 10/07/03
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:44:13 -0300 To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Brooks Davis wrote:
>
> Not today, since none of them get used in the paths that do this. In
> general the network code doesn't care what you call an interface. There
> are a few corners where it does, but nothing that isn't specific to
> a certain set of drivers. Additionally, it is necessary to not have
> members called if_name and if_unit if we have if_xname as the primary
> driver name. It's also worth noting that one of the things I want to do
> is break the driver+unit mapping for certain types of pseudo devices.
> Specifically vlan devices should be allocatable by creating an interface
> with a name like fxp0.100 so while you could synthesize a unit number,
> it wouldn't have any useful meaning.
I wonder how that works for vlans over bridges...
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