Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:27:29 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: "Li, Qing" <qing.li@bluecoat.com> Cc: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Qing Li <qingli@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: HEADSUP: arp-v2 has been committed Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.99.0901091021370.12007@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <B583FBF374231F4A89607B4D08578A4302B1CAC5@bcs-mail03.internal.cacheflow.com> References: <20081227202117.F3B14341A3@cavin02.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be><200812281613.49404.tijl@ulyssis.org> <alpine.LSU.1.99.0812290925070.23595@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <B583FBF374231F4A89607B4D08578A4302B1CAC5@bcs-mail03.internal.cacheflow.com>
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Li, Qing wrote: > I don't think we can provide binary compatibility without putting > back RTF_LLINFO exactly as it was. My preference is to continue down > the new path without RTF_LLINFO. So, you are saying that applications built on FreeBSD 7 or earlier that use RTF_LLINFO will no longer work properly on FreeBSD 8 after your change? Ignoring everything else, that would be a killer and the one reason to definitely change the current situation. Otherwise, ISVs will need two builds, one for FreeBSD 7 and earlier and one for FreeBSD 8, and believe me, that is bad, bad, bad. Or rather: unlikely. (GNU/Linux distributions do provide this level of compatibility.) > We still have some time before the 8.0 release. It's straightforward > for me to retain some of the RTF_LLINFO support in the new kernel if > and when the situation becomes necessary. Sounds like that is the case? > Since the affected ports now have the conditional code around > RTF_LLINFO, the updates would allow these ports to compile in > both -current and in the previous releases. emulators/wine still is broken, and upstream Wine has not accepted the patch yet. I believe one reason likely is the above, and the fact that this may break commercial builds of Wine. How are you going to address this? Gerald -- Gerald (Jerry) Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/
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