On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:53:21PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> ifi_mtu, etc remain in the same location because the two new variables
> fill in the hidden padding required to align ifi_mtu. I've verified
> that old and new ifconfigs work with old and new kernels. The change
> will allow 4.11 ifconfigs to work with 6.x if we add fields to struct
> if_data (fairly probable).
Ok, thanks. Since you were relying on invisible padding you had me
worried. ;-)
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