Vincent Boisard wrote: > I am currently trying to compile the open source vfe driver with Gldv3 support > (I need vlans) However, I cannot find the sys/mac.h and sys/mac_ether.h on my > system (Nevada b77).
You answer your question below. > I search on google and found some messages from July 2006 stating that the > interface was not stable and thus not made public and only available in the > ON bits. > We are now in 2008 so what's the status on this. The stability of the GLDv3 driver API is the same now as it was in 2006, Consolidation Private in the ON consolidation. You can develop your driver in the ON consolidation, in the same build framework as other ON drivers, to take advantage of these Consolidation Private APIs. The importance of making these interfaces Public is undisputed. What has stood in the way for the past few years has been lack of resources (i.e., someone who has the time to do the work), and looming incompatible changes. For the latter, I believe there was talk that Crossbow was making incompatible changes to the API, which would mean that they can't be publicized until Crossbow delivers. Note that I'm not a member of the Crossbow team, so it's possible that my understanding of the changes being made are inaccurate (if so, please correct my understanding.) -Seb _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
