Re: Increasing size of if_flags field in the ifnet structure [patchfor review]

2002-08-16 Thread Iasen Kostov
Please take a look at this patch. It implement 1 more flag to if_flags and ofcourse it increases size of this flag field by using if_ipending which is unused. On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: you cannot break ABIs in 4.x in 5.x it will probably be ok until (say) 5.1 or

Re: Increasing size of if_flags field in the ifnet structure [patchfor review]

2002-08-16 Thread Iasen Kostov
Ops here is the patch (not enough sleep again :(). On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Iasen Kostov wrote: Please take a look at this patch. It implement 1 more flag to if_flags and ofcourse it increases size of this flag field by using if_ipending which is unused. On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Julian

Re: Increasing size of if_flags field in the ifnet structure [patchfor review]

2002-08-16 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: When implementing ability to switch interface into promisc mode using ifconfig(8) I've stumbled into the problem with already exhausted space in the `short if_flags' field in the ifnet structure. I need to allocate one new flag, while we already have

Re: Increasing size of if_flags field in the ifnet structure [patchfor review]

2002-08-15 Thread Julian Elischer
you cannot break ABIs in 4.x in 5.x it will probably be ok until (say) 5.1 or something. On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Folks, When implementing ability to switch interface into promisc mode using ifconfig(8) I've stumbled into the problem with already exhausted space in the