Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:22:56 +0200 From: Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pf 4.1 Update available for testing Message-ID: <20070710132256.GD64775@tirith.brixandersen.dk> In-Reply-To: <200707101520.12272.max@love2party.net> References: <200706160347.33331.max@love2party.net> <20070710131224.GC64775@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <200707101520.12272.max@love2party.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi Max, On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:20:05PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Oh ... forgot about that ... there are several problems with that. First > of all RELENG_6 is missing the interface group infrastructure which is > essential to pf now. This makes it difficult to produce patches. I > could do it, but ... I see. > > Do you plan on MFC'ing pf-4.1 to RELENG_6 before RELENG_6_3 is > > branched? > > ... it can never be MFCed due to the ABI breakage in several essential > places (ifnet and pf ioctls). > > There is some work going on in OpenBSD 4.2 to reduce userland ABI changes > in the future, but for now updating pf means breaking ABIs means no MFC > unfortunately. Ah, of course - didn't think of that. Guess we'll just have to wait for 7.0 to hit the streets, then :) Thank you for working on this. Regards, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: GnuPG signed iD8DBQFGk4gvv+Q4flTiePgRAkFtAJ4gq+NFiEBbKJpn5LEbWipy+1bqZQCgwgYD 8mf3EydbfPIIoXpbnTsQw2o= =qRsq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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