Re: netgraph only on i386/ia64 - why ?

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 08/18/04

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    Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:56:14 -0700
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>

    Julian Elischer wrote:
    > John Polstra wrote:
    >
    >> On 18-Aug-2004 Julian Elischer wrote:
    >>
    >>> John Polstra wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> There is one problem with netgraph on 64-bit platforms. The ng_msghdr
    >>>> struct is 52 bytes / 4-byte aligned (see ng_message.h). That means
    >>>> the message payload is not well-aligned for 64-bit platforms. It
    >>>> would be nice to fix that (and bump NG_VERSION, of course). Nobody
    >>>> ever guaranteed that the message payload would be aligned, but it
    >>>> makes things a lot more convenient.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> if we do this we should do it now so that we have a consistent ABI
    >>> from 5.3 on..
    >>>
    >>> scott (et al), should we pad an extra 4 bytes in this now?
    >>> it's low/no risk, but better now than after 5.3 has been released..

    re:

    I'll do the commit to -current today..
    what other files should I change..?
    UPDATING (user utilitiesw will need recompile)
    and I guess the 50xxxx number..
    (where is that number again?)

    anything else?

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