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Author:     Justin Hibbits <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: 2023-07-09 13:50:47 +0000
Commit:     Lorenzo Salvadore <[email protected]>
CommitDate: 2023-07-09 13:53:50 +0000

    Status/2023Q2/ifapi.adoc: Add report
    
    Reviewed by:    status (Pau Amma <[email protected]>)
    Approved by:    dbaio (mentor, implicit)
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+=== Network Interface API (IfAPI)
+
+Links: +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet[Original project page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet
+
+Contact: Justin Hibbits <[email protected]>
+
+Started back in 2014, the IfAPI (formerly DrvAPI) goal is to hide the man:ifnet[9] structure from network drivers.
+Instead, all accesses to members will go through accessor functions.
+This allows the network stack to be changed without recompiling drivers, as well as potentially allowing a single driver to support multiple versions of FreeBSD.
+
+As of now this goal has been achieved in the base system, but several ports need to be updated to use the IfAPI.
+There is a tool to automate most of the conversion, in [.filename]#tools/ifnet/convert_ifapi.sh#.
+Documentation is also forthcoming, but could use help on that.
+man:ifnet[9] needs a lot of cleanup, as even some information in it currently is out of date.
+
+Sponsor: Juniper Networks, Inc.