netgraph only on i386/ia64 - why ?

[Scott Long]

John Polstra wrote:
> On 18-Aug-2004 Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
>>John Polstra wrote:
>>
>>>There is one problem with netgraph on 64-bit platforms.  The ng_msghdr
>>>struct is 52 bytes / 4-byte aligned (see ng_message.h).  That means
>>>the message payload is not well-aligned for 64-bit platforms.  It
>>>would be nice to fix that (and bump NG_VERSION, of course).  Nobody
>>>ever guaranteed that the message payload would be aligned, but it
>>>makes things a lot more convenient.
>>
>>if we do this we should do it now so that we have a consistent ABI from 5.3 on..
>>
>>scott (et al), should we pad an extra 4 bytes in this now?
>>it's low/no risk, but better now than after 5.3 has been released..
> 
> 
> I'd really like to see this change happen.  Julian, would it require
> bumping just NG_VERSION, or should NG_ABI_VERSION change too?
> 
> John

The first step here is to commit to HEAD.  Once the details are worked
out, we'll likely approve it for RELENG_5.

Scott