On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 02:31:30PM -0700, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
O> Gleb Smirnoff (gleb...@freebsd.org) wrote:
O> > Author: glebius
O> > Date: Thu Oct 10 23:42:55 2019
O> > New Revision: 353419
O> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/353419
O> > 
O> > Log:
O> >   Provide new KPI for network drivers to access lists of interface
O> >   addresses.  The KPI doesn't reveal neither how addresses are stored,
O> >   how the access to them is synchronized, neither reveal struct ifaddr
O> >   and struct ifmaddr.
O> >   
O> >   Reviewed by:     gallatin, erj, hselasky, philip, stevek
O> >   Differential Revision:   https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21943
O> 
O> Hi Gleb,
O> 
O> Are there any plans to MFC this change and the subsequent API consumer 
changes?
O> Lack of this API in 12 makes MFCing unrelated eth driver fixes hard.

I don't plan to MFC it, but there is nothing that would blocks such MFC.

Of course internals of the functions would be different - using mutex instead
of the epoch to sync access to address lists.

I can provide patch for you, but you would be responsive for MFC. I don't
have any 12-based systems to test changes.

-- 
Gleb Smirnoff
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