From owner-freebsd-net Sun Aug 12 14:37:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CAF937B405 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 14:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id f7CLa4f43385; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:36:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:36:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Julian Elischer Cc: itojun@iijlab.net, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPV6/KAME/protosw integration cleanup In-Reply-To: <3B76CFD3.4C6D4DDE@elischer.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) > > -- > +------------------------------------+ ______ _ __ > | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in > | / \ julian@elischer.org +------>x USA \ a very strange > | ( OZ ) \___ ___ | country ! > +- X_.---._/ presently in San Francisco \_/ \\ > v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message