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From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Subject: Re: Patches for if_ec.* to work with BPF
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Martin BIRGMEIER (mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
: Below are the patches I hacked up to get my 3c503 card to work with the
: Berkeley Packet Filter. I have been using them for a while now (since
: well before pk 0.2 came along) and they seem to be running fine. To
: arrive at them, I simply diffed the old and new versions of if_we*, and
: manually applied the resulting changes to if_ec.* (these interfaces are
: the same for all practical purposes, the chip being the same as I
: understood from the comments in if_ec.c). So basically if_ec.* should
: now offer all of the functionality of if_we* (I hope :-)).

grrrr... :-> I spent a couple of hours last night doing just that and
was going to test it tonight before releasing it... Guess you beat me
to it...

Incidentally; I just want it known that "I" didn't have the stupid
printf in ecinit when I released it... That was a another Jolitz-ism..

(actually; this whole post was just an excuse to mention that!)
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