Hi,
On 18/10/2019 17:19, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> 3. Track down all the places that this might be used, and make sure they
>> are also changed to handle a u_int32_t.
>
> Gigantic ABI breakage.
>
> Hope you have fun upgrading bsd, ifconfig, and other tools through that
> change.
Yeah, I didn't
> This presents another problem because the if_type member of the if_data
> struct is defined as a u_char and so the type I've been assigned isn't
> even going to fit.
Riight.
> 3. Track down all the places that this might be used, and make sure they
> are also changed to handle a u_int32_t.
Hi,
For context: I'm currently working on a patch set for OpenBSD that adds
support for AX.25 network interfaces.
Constants for interface types are defined in based on
the IANA registry for ifTypes maintained as:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/ianaiftype-mib
As the bottom of this file, we
