Re: HEADSUP if_xname incoming in one week

2003-10-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:49:14PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > Some FAQs regarding this change: Oops, I forgot one. Q: Won't this break some ports? A: Yes, a few do break, but the fix is trivial and there are better inferfaces for what they want. When a previous version was tested, fi

HEADSUP if_xname incoming in one week

2003-10-23 Thread Brooks Davis
In approximately one week, I plan to commit the conversion of the if_name and if_unit members of struct ifnet to if_xname. Initially, this was the sum total of the commit, but code requiring knowledge of the underlying driver name and unit number necessitated the addition of two more members, if_d