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author | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-09-02 05:07:29 +0000 |
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committer | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-09-02 05:07:29 +0000 |
commit | 9baee722362720c44fff4fcd638e44879a8bfda6 (patch) | |
tree | ba339092884750a1fdba677489127dffd5a65489 /UPDATING | |
parent | 4bb443a24da69733cefdb7ed27ddf2590672703a (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-9baee722362720c44fff4fcd638e44879a8bfda6.zip FreeBSD-src-9baee722362720c44fff4fcd638e44879a8bfda6.tar.gz |
Back out ifi_epoch. The ABI breakage is too disruptive this close to
5-STABLE. ifi_epoch will shortly be reintroduced with less precistion
using the space currently allocated to ifi_unused.
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 6.x IS SLOW: developers choose to disable these features on build machines to maximize performance. +20040902: + The ifi_epoch change has been reverted because the ABI breakage + was too extensive. If you are running with a kernel/userland + containing the initial change (20040830), you should heed the + warning about ifconfig incompatibility when upgrading again. + With this change, 5.3 and 6.0 ifconfigs and kernels are once + again interoperable. + 20040830: A new variable, ifi_epoch, has been added to struct if_data which is part if struct ifnet. This means all network drivers |