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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:36:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        itojun@iijlab.net, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPV6/KAME/protosw integration cleanup
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010812172731.38785C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B76CFD3.4C6D4DDE@elischer.org>

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It strikes me that, although some code cleanup may be called for, a week
is too agressive a deadline for many of them to be pushed through,
especially in light of the code maintenance issue on the KAME side.  I
suggest that we look at a more gradual approach, as there's no rush right
now for 5.0-RELEASE, and attempt to address technical issues one at a time
(rather than a mega-patch).  This would allow changes to be integrated as
necessary into the KAME tree one-by-one, allow synchronization with code
on other platforms, and allow the resolution of any technical problems to
be done in a manner that all consumers of the KAME code can accept.

Increasing the differences between the FreeBSD and KAME trees will only
serve to exacerbatese these difficilties, especially in light of other
changes coming in on the FreeBSD side (such as fine-grained locking).  We
benefit a great deal from the work performed by the KAME team, and I think
I speak for everyone on the FreeBSD side when I say that we certainly wish
to continue to be able to take advantage of the KAME IP stack work :-). 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> Here is the patch I will consider committing in a week (unless I see these
> issues 
> being handled elsewhere)
> 
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