Archie Cobbs writes: > Luigi Rizzo writes: > > > Is if_tx_rdy() something that can be used generally or does it only > > > work with dummynet ? > > > > well, the function is dummynet-specific, but I would certainly like > > a generic callback list to be implemented in ifnet which is > > invoked on tx_empty events. > > Me too :-) > > > The problem as usual is that you have to touch every single device > > driver... Fortunately we can leave the ifnet structure unmodified > > because i just discovered there is an ifindex2ifnet array which is > > managed and can be extended to point to additional ifnet state that > > does not fit in the immutable one... > > Why is it important to avoid changing 'struct ifnet' ?
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