re: CVS commit: src/sys/compat/netbsd32

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> Oh, I quite agree.
> However, in6_nbrinfo predates my involvement with NetBSD and is the same struct 
> on all BSD. While bringing the same functionality to IPv4, I elected to keep the 
> same struct just to have the same API, warts and all. I like consistency.
[ .. ]
>
> That breaks API/ABI though yes?
> As such it would require stuff in compat anyway, but leaving it as it just needs 
> n32 compat gunk instead which is less impactful on other systems.

in6_nbrinfo/in_nbrinfo are not in any published netbsd release
so we can choose to break them in -current.  there's a slight
problem that -current has a minor flag day here, but it's not
the compat issue you seem to think.

with simon's proposed patch, the API doesn't change, so there
no source compat issue to worry about either.  this _only_
breaks -current in the last 4 months or so.


i think we should do this, rather than add additional compat.
we're allowed (and should!) fix -current issues like this.


.mrg.