Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:24:48AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> [...]
> The first issue that you face that for all intents and purposes, you
> cannot change "struct ifnet" because it is in too many places and
> change will likely have a huge waterfall effect. So that can't be
> changed.

that's not true. struct ifnet can and has been changed, the last
time was 2011/10/19.
But this will likely cause ABI issues; if this has to be pulled up to netbsd-6
and/or netbsd-5, this needs to be carefully examinated.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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