Re: axing KAME interface ioctls

On Nov 5, 2013, at 7:02 , Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:01:14PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> T>   Hello.
> T> 
> T>   Since 1999 we have got some dead code from KAME, namely support for these
> T> ioctls:
> T> 
> T> 	SIOCALIFADDR
> T> 	SIOCGLIFADDR
> T> 	SIOCDLIFADDR
> T> 	SIOCSLIFPHYADDR
> T> 	SIOCGLIFPHYADDR
> T> 
> T>   We don not have any software in base that use (or used) them. The ports
> T> exp-run with SIOC.LIFADDR undefined didn't reveal any port that use them.
> T> I forgot to add SIOC.LIFPHYADDR to exp-run, but pretty sure these are unused,
> T> too.
> T> 
> T>   What did this ioctls do? They are KAME version of SIOCAIFADDR, and
> T> SIOCSIFPHYADDR respectively. Some operating systems (at least HPUX)
> T> have adopted them, and some software may use them on these systems.
> T> Anyway, in FreeBSD all software always used our native ioctls.
> T> 
> T>   I hope there is no objections against axing these in head/.
> 
> Patch attached.
> 

Please do.

Best,
George