[lwip-devel] [task #14314] Implement interface name/index APIs

[David van Moolenbroek]

Follow-up Comment #31, task #14314 (project lwip):

> To me, the API provided by netif.h would better work on 'num' only and the
conversion +/-1 to index should be done in if.c?

It may be worth noting that my scopes patch relies on the netif calls doing
the +1 conversion, as IP6_NO_ZONE (0) is a special value. As such there is a
reason to have this convention in the core layer too, and so I would keep this
as is.

> The question is how would David improve this for his many-netifs case?

Oh I don't have that many either; ten netifs is currently my maximum
concurrent total. There may be a high turnover though, since my implementation
supports dynamic pseudodevices - e.g. I have tests that dynamically create and
destroy an additional loopback device for each subtest. As before: as long as
I can override the value of 'num' from the init callback, I don't really mind
what netif_add() sets it to (or how). If netif_add() guarantees uniqueness I
can work with that as well, but I'm entirely happy with the way things are
right now, too.

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