re: kern/58168: IFF_OACTIVE semantics and replacement plan is unclear

[matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/58168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>
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Subject: re: kern/58168: IFF_OACTIVE semantics and replacement plan is unclear
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:38:41 +1000

 in the old method, IFF_OACTIVE is an driver-internal thing to say
 "i'm sending a packet".
 
 how it's used is upto each driver.
 
 replacement is to put it into driver-internal data, if you need it,
 but it's not always wanted or useful.  as the TODO.smpnet says, it
 needs to stop being part of if_flags, but what you do instead is a
 driver specific answer.  (perhaps updating TODO.smpnet to say that
 the semantics are driver specific would suffice here?)
 
 
 .mrg.