Re: NKE legacy
Re: NKE legacy
- Subject: Re: NKE legacy
- From: Vincent Lubet <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:40:45 -0700
On Jun 27, 2006, at 9:14 PM, David A Rowland wrote: In Apple's NKE Legacy document the following is said:
For all shipping releases of Mac OS X prior to 10.4, the Network Kernel Extensions (NKE) APIs have
not been officially supported. The current NKE architecture was implemented as an interim solution.
The current API was never designed to be officially supported. Other aspects of the OS X networking
implementation have received a higher priority, and so the interim solution has remained in effect
to OS X 10.3.x.
The NKE mechanism for Mac OS X version 10.4 and later is described in the document Network Kernel
Extensions Programming Guide.
I assume that the legacy API is supported under 10.4 and will be for a while. Is there a date when such suppport will be removed?
Kernel extensions using the old NKE API built on Tiger (or below) will be incompatible with Leopard. Even if many of the unsupported calls are present, many data structure layouts will be different.
Using the KPI introduced in Tiger 10.4 is the only way forward.
Vincent |
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