Abstracting struct ifnet

[Julian Elischer]

On 2/17/12 7:48 AM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> M>  Thoughts, feedback and suggestion are welcome,
>>
>> Is it possible to make the structure the driver points to opaque?
>>
>> Once made, that would allow us to hack on the ifnet (or on its
>> successor - iflogical) more aggressively without breaking ABI/API.
> Yes, that's the idea. Backward compatibility kinda conflicts
> with making struct ifnet entirely abstract, but I don't see
> that as a problem without solution. Only as a problem for
> which an acceptable solution must be found.
>
> For example: you can introduce a define that either old or
> new drivers use to indicate whether they need full visibility
> or whether an abstract type works. This then drives what is
> defined/declared and how it's defined/declared.
>
The trouble is that core debugging is not doable via methods

i.e.
    netstat -i | -I interface [-abdhntW] [-f address_family] [-M core]
              [-N system]

becomes much more difficult to achieve.