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Subject: Re: [HEADSUP]  IPX and NWFS to be killed in -current.
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Robert Watson wrote:

> - IPX cleanup and locking, in particular, normalizing the data structures,
>   moving to queue(9) from custom lists, locking of the pcb lists and pcbs,
>   and interactions with socket locking.  The basic IPX pieces should fall
>   out pretty easily; I need to look more closely at SPX before passing
>   judgement there.
> 
> - Writing some simple IPX/SPX regression suites for loopback traffic and
>   ethernet traffic.

FYI, as of this evening (and per the HEADS UP on freebsd-current), most of
the locking part of this is now committed to CVS HEAD, with an intent to
merge to RELENG_5 in a few weeks.  There's more work to do on the
locking/cleanup/testing for IPX/SPX, and I'll chug away a bit more on it,
but we should now be in a much better position than we were. 

Robert N M Watson