field. This returns the sdl_data field to a variable-length field. More
importantly, this prevents a easily-reproduceable data-corruption bug when
the interface name plus the hardware address exceed the sdl_data field's
original 12 byte limit. However, token-ring interfaces may still overflow
the new sdl_data field's 46 byte limit if the interface name exceeds 6
characters (since 6 characters for interface name plus 6 for hardware
address plus 34 for source routing = the size of sdl_data). Further
refinements could overcome this limitation but would break binary
compatibility; this commit only addresses fixing the bug for
commonly-occuring cases without breaking binary compatibility with the
intention that the functionality can be MFC'ed to -stable.
See message ID's (both send to -arch):
20020421013332.F87395-100000@gateway.posi.net20020430181359.G11009-300000@gateway.posi.net
for a more thorough description of the bug addressed and how to
reproduce it.
Approved by: silence on -arch and -net
Sponsored by: NTT Multimedia Communications Labs
MFC after: 1 week
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
Move the Olicom token ring driver to the officially sanctionned location of
/sys/contrib. Also fix some brokenness in the generic token ring support.
Be warned that if_dl.h has been changed and SOME programs might
like recompilation.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
