Subject: Re: Dynamic registry of ehternet frame types
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/12/2003 11:09:21
Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:47:31AM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> > default:
> > if (ether_me_harder && (*ether_me_harder)(etype, m))
> > break;
>
> Managing a list of
>
> struct ethertype_input_handler {
> SLIST_ENTRY(ethertype_input_handler) next;
> void (*func)(struct mbuf *m, u_int16 ethertype)
> u_int16 ethertype;
> };
>
> is not that hard and it scales better.
Do it, then :) It might be desirable to make the associated
code in if_ethersubr.c #if defined(NPPPOE) for now, or
#if defined(LKM) || defined(NPPPOE).
Jaromir
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