👍👍 You have my thumbs up! cc
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 2:38 PM Justin Hibbits <jhibb...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Many thanks to everyone involved, either fixing ports, reviewing > changes, or assisting with the API, struct ifnet is now hidden from > drivers and userspace. This means drivers now use the IfAPI, currently > largely consisting of just getters and setters in place of direct > access, with tools/ifnet/convert_ifapi.sh being a good starting point > for adapting drivers. > > In struct ifnet's place is if_t, an opaque pointer. "Blessed" parts of > the kernel, effectively anything sys/net*, modulo sys/netlink, can > directly access it, as those directories comprise the network stack, so > need direct access, as they manage the interfaces. Manpage updates > will be coming "soon", I'm hoping in the next few weeks, and will > likely need lots of review and editing. > > Again, thanks for everyone's help. I hope the road forward with this > is not too bumpy. > > - Justin > > -- Best Regards, Cheng Cui
