Luigi,
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 07:59:42PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
L> My point is preserving support for out of tree modules,
L> and spares (or spare accessors, or the ABI you mention below;
L> something that gets you quickly a vendor specific pointer
L> from an opaque ifnet) were useful for th
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> Luigi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 01:01:13PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> L> > The harm is obvious: someone commits code that _uses_ spare field
> L> > without assigning it a new name. Spare field is a placeholder. Of
> L> > course you can
Luigi,
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 01:01:13PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
L> > The harm is obvious: someone commits code that _uses_ spare field
L> > without assigning it a new name. Spare field is a placeholder. Of
L> > course you can use it while you experiment. However, I don't see
L> > problem wit
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> Luigi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:13:42PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> L> svn 270870 removed all the if_*spare fields in struct ifnet.
> L> They are replaced with the following comment
> L>
> L> /*
> L> * Spare fields to be added befor
Luigi,
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:13:42PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
L> svn 270870 removed all the if_*spare fields in struct ifnet.
L> They are replaced with the following comment
L>
L> /*
L> * Spare fields to be added before branching a stable branch, so
L> * that structure can be enhanced w
hi,
sorry if i just noticed it recently.
svn 270870 removed all the if_*spare fields in struct ifnet.
They are replaced with the following comment
/*
* Spare fields to be added before branching a stable branch, so
* that structure can be enhanced without changing the kernel
* binary interface.
