On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 07:24 -0700, Michael Hunter wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:59:55 -0400
> Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at Sun.COM> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the responses.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:45 -0700, Michael Hunter wrote:
> > > seb-097   ncu_ip.c'540-582: The strategy used to figure out if a logical 
> > > interface is needed or if it's the first address seems error prone and 
> > > certainly not thread safe (although I'm not sure if thread safety is a 
> > > concern for this function). This seems to be needed as a side-effect of 
> > > the distinction between the newly introduced icfg_add_ipaddr() vs. 
> > > icfg_set_addr() functions. It should be possible to fix this by defining 
> > > a single icfg_add_addr() function that just does the right thing.
> > > 
> > > rewritten significantly, less complex and covers add/set distinction in 
> > > add_ip_address
> > > 
> > > On a related note, why is one _ipaddr() and the other _addr()?
> > > 
> > > We inherited libinetcfg.  Ask the bad boy who wrote it?
> > 
> > My point is that there is an existing convension of _addr in libinetcfg,
> 
> Which makes sense since its libinetcfg, not libnetcfg.

It's not a big deal, it's just a matter of consistency.  This will all
hopefully get yanked out by Brussels II (right?).

> 
> > and the NWAM project is adding a conflicting convention of _ipaddr.  The
> > disparate nomenclature is entirely due to the new NWAM code.  I don't
> > understand the response.
> 
> I didn't understand your question correctly.  I've changed
> icfg_{add,remove}_ipaddr() to icfg_{add,remove}_addr();

Okay, thanks.
-Seb


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