Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:40:51 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Paolo Pisati <piso@freebsd.org> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't link kernel after recent libalias commits? Message-ID: <200612311540.58196.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <20061231070453.GV46380@FreeBSD.org> References: <20061230195219.GD64111@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20061231024203.GA8147@tin.it> <20061231070453.GV46380@FreeBSD.org>
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--nextPart1339918.rAV2WeRTfe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 31 December 2006 08:04, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:42:03AM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote: > P> On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:04:33PM +0100, Max Laier wrote: > P> > On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:46, Paolo Pisati wrote: > P> > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:43:21PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > P> > > > Note that this was for a kernel that uses ipfw, but not natd > (ref. P> > > > src/sys/conf/NOTES). > P> > > > P> > > my mistake, i'll write an entry for UPDATING. > P> > > P> > Shouldn't it still be possible to build a kernel with IPFW but > without P> > LIBALIAS? i.e. instead of a UPDATING entry you should > just wrap the P> > libalias entry points in IPFW - or am I > misunderstanding what you are P> > saying? > P> > P> with my last commit, LIBALIAS became mandatory for IPFW, and this > adds P> 40kb (-O nocona) to my kernel size. > P> > P> If it's really an issue, i can change it. > > As I said it will be very nice if it would be still possible to build > ipfw(4) w/o libalias. I think more people will share my opinion. I agree. You can either simply #ifdef-out the Libalias glue code in ipfw=20 on LIBALIAS or introduce a new option "FIREWALL_NO_ALIAS" or something to=20 have that effect. The first would not break POLA and should be=20 preferred - IMO. Having the module build default to "with LIBALIAS" is=20 okay to make this great feature available from a default installation,=20 but there certainly should be a way to disable it on a custom build. =20 Also a make.conf switch to disable it from the module could make sense. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1339918.rAV2WeRTfe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFl8v6XyyEoT62BG0RAkrqAJ4zGGJHLLQSKqrdUTcgPYv8zxgHDQCdGwtG J9ZR5vZFK2XeEYz9eRfWEXg= =ve8t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1339918.rAV2WeRTfe--
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