Le Mardi 30 Septembre 2003 03:03, Brooks Davis a écrit : > [Previously posted to -net in another form.] > > I propose to add an if_dev member to struct ifnet. It would be of type > device_t and be defined to point to the device for the interface or NULL > if there is no device (or if there was not an easy way to get access to > one). > > This change would codify the the relationship between an interface and > the underlying physical device. It also would get rid of the existing > abuses of if_name to look up the driver associated with an interface > and simplify a number of messy cases in the conversion from if_unit and > if_name to if_xname. > > Does this seem like a reasonable thing to do?
Yes, if it helps to remove if_name/if_unit, it is a thing to do. Moreover it sounds a good idea to have the if_dev field into the ifnet structure. Regards, Vincent _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
