Re: Interface description support

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

I think if_description in struct ifnet should be moved before the #ifdef 
_KERNEL block so it stays at the same offset for non-_KERNEL users.

Cheers,
Jared

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, KUSABA Takeshi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose a feature: a description of a network interface.
> (FreeBSD and OpenBSD support this feature.)
>
> Here is a patch.
>
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/maleic1618/f4881717cbd3b1e3182984f9773b1001/raw/114b5d6c4fbe1fd9cd473fdc802b003c072c2794/description.patch
>
> The sammary of this patch is:
>
> ioctl(2):
> - support the commands SIOCGIFDESCR/SIOCSIFDESCR to get/set the description.
>
> ifconfig(8):
> - add the commands description,descr/-description,-descr to set/clear the 
> description.
>
>
> Could you comment on this patch?
> I hope that this patch will be merged.
>
> Thanks,
>
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