Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:16:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: if_fwe -> BURN_BRIDGES? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040703221617.24282G-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0407031809150.66234-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: > since the author is still around, what does it cost us to keep it until > he is ready to dump it.. I think that's what I'm suggesting, in practice. :-) That said, we should clearly document a preference for using the standards compliant implementation, now that we have one. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > > > Now that we have dfr's IP-over-1394 code in the tree, I suggest we > > > consider depracating if_fwe(4) as it's nonstandard anyway. What does > > > everyone else think? > > > > If the if_fwe code is present in FreeBSD 4.x, but dfr's new IP over > > firewire code isn't, I'd suggest a more gentle deprecation path so that > > 6.x and 4.x can talk to each other :-). > > > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > > robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >
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