kern/33201: net/net_osdep.c:if_name is broken

[Brooks Davis]

The following reply was made to PR kern/33201; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Tilman Linneweh <arved at Freebsd.org>
Cc: rwatson at Freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs at Freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/33201: net/net_osdep.c:if_name is broken
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:21:49 -0700

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 On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:59:01PM +0000, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
 > Synopsis: net/net_osdep.c:if_name is broken
 >=20
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: arved
 > State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 25 20:56:22 GMT 2004
 > State-Changed-Why:=20
 > It looks like this was resolved with the if_xname commit.
 > Can this PR be closed?
 
 Unless we care about fixing it in stable, we can close this.  if_name()
 is correct other then a couple style bugs.
 
 We might want to just nuke net_osdep.c and replace if_name() with:
 
 #define	if_name(ifp)	((ifp)->if_xname)
 
 This was over a year ago in NetBSD.
 
 -- Brooks
 
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