From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 06:35:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69737DC8; Thu, 29 May 2014 06:35:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (dns-bn1lp0143.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.163.143]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.protection.outlook.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60EDB22B1; Thu, 29 May 2014 06:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from CO2PR05MB730.namprd05.prod.outlook.com (10.141.228.15) by CO2PR05MB729.namprd05.prod.outlook.com (10.141.228.12) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.949.11; Thu, 29 May 2014 06:34:56 +0000 Received: from CO2PR05MB730.namprd05.prod.outlook.com ([10.141.228.15]) by CO2PR05MB730.namprd05.prod.outlook.com ([10.141.228.15]) with mapi id 15.00.0949.001; Thu, 29 May 2014 06:34:56 +0000 From: Anuranjan Shukla To: "mike@karels.net" , Gleb Smirnoff Subject: Re: Roadmap for ifnet(9) for FreeBSD 11 Thread-Topic: Roadmap for ifnet(9) for FreeBSD 11 Thread-Index: AQHPewADX4+rVOOldkOoqmC4MWB2pZtWpNgA Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 06:34:55 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20140529040425.GT50679@glebius.int.ru> <201405290537.s4T5b16Z033344@mail.karels.net> In-Reply-To: <201405290537.s4T5b16Z033344@mail.karels.net> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.4.1.140326 x-originating-ip: [66.129.239.10] x-forefront-prvs: 022649CC2C x-forefront-antispam-report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(6009001)(428001)(51704005)(479174003)(35774003)(199002)(189002)(24454002)(26614003)(377454003)(83322001)(50986999)(85852003)(83506001)(19580395003)(83072002)(99396002)(4396001)(19580405001)(92566001)(46102001)(54356999)(77982001)(101416001)(77096999)(99286001)(2656002)(64706001)(20776003)(86362001)(79102001)(74502001)(74662001)(21056001)(76482001)(81342001)(81542001)(66066001)(80022001)(76176999)(92726001)(31966008)(87936001)(36756003); DIR:OUT; SFP:; SCL:1; SRVR:CO2PR05MB729; H:CO2PR05MB730.namprd05.prod.outlook.com; FPR:; MLV:sfv; PTR:InfoNoRecords; A:1; MX:1; LANG:en; received-spf: None (: juniper.net does not designate permitted sender hosts) authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=anshukla@juniper.net; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: juniper.net Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Rui Paulo , "freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Arch" X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 06:35:01 -0000 On Rui=B9s question, if I understand it right, yes we=B9ll work on the patc= h based on comments and feedback. As is obvious, Juniper=B9s network stack ha= s its own set of the drvapi functions that do very different things in some cases. One intent in the submission is to agree upon the API itself as a first step, because further along we are in our production/shipping cycles with this change the harder it=B9ll be to pull off fundamental changes ther= e. On 5/28/14, 10:37 PM, "Mike Karels" wrote: >Marcel and others, is there more to the roadmap than making the ifnet >easier >to change? Could you outline a bit more of the roadmap? I know that >Juniper >has more levels in the hierarchy of interface data structures. What are >you >proposing that we change after this step? > >I'll also repeat the general part of Rui's question: > >R> This is indeed needed, but it would be nice to understand what would >happen if the community has comments about your patch. Will Juniper be >able to integrate back those comments? > > Mike