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author | Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-06-29 19:46:29 +0000 |
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committer | Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-06-29 19:46:29 +0000 |
commit | 6cb7f168dbc90bf59a61e4eb433c1df2b3ed111c (patch) | |
tree | bafd4643a36f16f38324f5cdfeb98860cd7c22a0 /UPDATING | |
parent | 8c8484d1035b72cda67f59be7e3cdf647704c7f2 (diff) | |
download | src-6cb7f168dbc90bf59a61e4eb433c1df2b3ed111c.tar.gz src-6cb7f168dbc90bf59a61e4eb433c1df2b3ed111c.zip |
Remove support for the /dev/net/* per-interface devices. They serve
little purpose and are unused in the base system.
The IOCTL functionality is entirely duplicated and routing sockets
provide a richer interface than the kqueue functionality.
Further, it is not practical for these devices to be made sensible in
the face of VIMAGE.
Bump __FreeBSD_version on the off chance that there is any code out
there that actually uses this stuff.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Discussed with: bz, zec
Approved by: re@ (kensmith)
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=195175
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@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW: to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.) +20090629: + The network interface device nodes at /dev/net/<interface> have + been removed. All ioctl operations can be performed the normal + way using routing sockets. The kqueue functionality can + generally be replaced with routing sockets. + 20090628: The documentation from the FreeBSD Documentation Project (Handbook, FAQ, etc.) is now installed via packages by |