svn commit: r232588 - head/share/man/man9

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 6 08:59:43 UTC 2012


Author: pluknet
Date: Tue Mar  6 08:59:42 2012
New Revision: 232588
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/232588

Log:
  - ifnet_addrs has gone and replaced by ifaddr_byindex(), as per r83130
  - access to the AF_LINK address through if_addrhead is deprecated (r128315)
  
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/share/man/man9/ifnet.9

Modified: head/share/man/man9/ifnet.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/ifnet.9	Tue Mar  6 08:40:21 2012	(r232587)
+++ head/share/man/man9/ifnet.9	Tue Mar  6 08:59:42 2012	(r232588)
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@
 .\"
 .Ss "Interface Address Functions"
 .Ft "struct ifaddr *"
+.Fn ifaddr_byindex "u_short idx"
+.Ft "struct ifaddr *"
 .Fn ifa_ifwithaddr "struct sockaddr *addr"
 .Ft "struct ifaddr *"
 .Fn ifa_ifwithdstaddr "struct sockaddr *addr"
@@ -127,7 +129,7 @@
 .\"
 .Ss "Global Variables"
 .Vt extern struct ifnethead ifnet ;
-.Vt extern struct ifaddr **ifnet_addrs ;
+.\" extern struct ifindex_entry *ifindex_table ;
 .Vt extern int if_index ;
 .Vt extern int ifqmaxlen ;
 .Sh DATA STRUCTURES
@@ -192,12 +194,18 @@ Each interface also has a
 .Li TAILQ
 of interface addresses, described by
 .Vt ifaddr
-structures; the head of the queue is always an
+structures.
+An
 .Dv AF_LINK
 address
 (see
 .Xr link_addr 3 )
-describing the link layer implemented by the interface (if any).
+describing the link layer implemented by the interface (if any)
+is accessed by the
+.Fn ifaddr_byindex
+function or
+.Va if_addr
+structure.
 (Some trivial interfaces do not provide any link layer addresses;
 this structure, while still present, serves only to identify the
 interface name and index.)
@@ -1085,8 +1093,11 @@ addresses on that interface, and create 
 .Vt ifaddr
 structure to be the first element in that list.
 (A pointer to
-this address structure is saved in the global array
-.Va ifnet_addrs . )
+this address structure is saved in the
+.Vt ifnet
+structure and shall be accessed by the
+.Fn ifaddr_byindex
+function.)
 The
 .Fa ifp
 must have been allocated by


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