I'm working on just such a driver. It has layers that communicate with assumptions about structure alignment. Moving struct arpcom to the beginning breaks this, and requires scattered changes throughout. :-(
Even so I'd rather do it the right way. Unless, I hear someone else disagreeing, I'll assume that arpcom must be at the top of softc and write a problem report against the offending drivers (awi,lnc,pdq,ray). - Bill Baumann On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:58:12 -0700 (PDT), Bill Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Why bother with a if_softc field when the interface and softc pointer are > > supposed to be the same? Also, the very old Lance driver (lnc) has this > > problem. It makes me wonder how true we are to TCP/IP Illustrated... > > if_softc was added to pacify those who either didn't understand the C > language, or thought they had a good reason why the softc structure > had to begin with some other structure than ifnet. > > -GAWollman > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
