struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
clock time to uptime because wall clock time may go backwards.
This is a change in the API which will impact SNMP agents who are using
ifi_epoch to set RFC2233's ifCounterDiscontinuityTime. None are know to
exist today. This will not impact applications that are using the
<index, epoch> tuple to verify interface uniqueness except that it
eliminates a race which could lead to a false assumption of uniqueness.
Because this is a behavior change, bump __FreeBSD_version.
Discussed with: re (jhb, scottl)
MFC after: 3 days
Pointed out by: pkh (way back at EuroBSDCon)
Pointy hat: brooks
components as well, i.e., polling.
2. Stress that if_capenable should be modified only from within
the interface driver because it solely knows about how to control
the capabilities.
The basic process is to send a routing socket announcement that the
interface has departed, change if_xname, update the sockaddr_dl
associated with the interface, and announce the arrival of the interface
on the routing socket.
As part of this change, ifunit() is greatly simplified by testing
if_xname directly. if_clone_destroy() now uses if_dname to look up the
cloner for the interface and if_dunit to identify the unit number.
Reviewed by: ru, sam (concept)
Vincent Jardin <vjardin AT free.fr>
Max Laier <max AT love2party.net>
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.
Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)
discipline to Random Early Detection (RED) in the future. The same para
incorrectly spelt ``Random Early Detection'' as ``Random Early Drop''.
While I am there, nuke IF_ENQ_DROP from the list of functions. More
work will be done on this, since some of the functions like
if_enq_drop() and if_queue_drop() were replaced with one function
called if_handoff() that does the job of enqueing the packet and
updating interface statistics as necessary.
Reviewed by: wollman
Approved by: des (mentor)
MFC after: 1 day
datagrams have a LIST of multicast group memberships...". On -CURRENT, that
LIST is actually a TAILQ. Note that -STABLE still uses a LIST
PR: 50426
Submitted by: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
Remove explicit mention of IP stack, since it might not be accurate for all
interfaces.
Change if_enable to if_capenable, as it is spelled.
Submitted by: jlemon
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.
cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'
BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows
me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block...
Reviewed by: Silence from cvs diff -b
MFC after: 7 days
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
