Subject: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
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From: None <source@NetBSD.ORG>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/25/1997 18:50:02
thorpej
Sun May 25 11:42:58 PDT 1997
Update of /cvsroot/src/usr.sbin/config
In directory netbsd1:/var/slash-tmp/cvs-serv17993

Modified Files:
	config.h main.c sem.c sem.h 
Log Message:
Implement an unfortunate, and temporary, kludge to address the problem
reported in PR #3668 from maximum entropy <entropy@tanstaafl.bernstein.com>.

The problem: The unit number is not being conveyed to the configuration
crosscheck with root is a network interface; the device number is set
to NODEV, which sets up the (correct) defaults for swap/dump devices.
We can't change NODEV to a unit number, as the PR's patch suggests, as
this breaks the swap/dump defaults.  Rewriting that code is not really
justified, since it's soon to be obsoleted.

The kludge: add an "nv_ifunit" member to struct nvlist, which convey's
a network interface's unit number to the crosscheck routine.  It's not
pretty, but it's not terribly invasive, and can be garbage-collected
easily when the swap/dump goo is obsoleted.