From 995c7fd1bf57d48a40605c36ffaacfb048d677eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yaroslav Tykhiy Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:40:45 +0000 Subject: Sync ether_ioctl() with ioctl(2) and ifnet.if_ioctl as to the type of the command argument: int -> u_long. These types have different widths in the 64-bit world. Add a note to UPDATING because the change breaks KBI on 64-bit platforms. Discussed on: -net, -current Reviewed by: bms, ru --- UPDATING | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'UPDATING') diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 47cb554de341..373958ba49a8 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW: developers choose to disable these features on build machines to maximize performance. +20070529: + The ether_ioctl() function has been synchronized with ioctl(2) + and ifnet.if_ioctl. Due to that, the size of one of its arguments + has changed on 64-bit architectures. All kernel modules using + ether_ioctl() need to be rebuilt on such architectures. + 20070516: Improved INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE support has been introduced to the config(8) utility. In order to take advantage of this new -- cgit v1.2.3