From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 08:44:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4638B16A41F; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:44:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9F343D58; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:44:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8S8hu6a008453 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:43:57 +1000 Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (localhost.alcatel.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8S8huSR072247; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:43:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from pjeremy@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au) Received: (from pjeremy@localhost) by cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id j8S8huZj072246; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:43:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from pjeremy) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:43:55 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-ID: <20050928084355.GY40237@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <200509272026.28950.max@love2party.net> <433A0D6D.5060802@portaone.com> <20050928061331.GA867@zaphod.nitro.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050928061331.GA867@zaphod.nitro.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Max Laier , Maxim.Sobolev@portaone.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: bridge(4) removed from HEAD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:44:07 -0000 On Wed, 2005-Sep-28 08:13:32 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >Considering that we only (more or less) document -STABLE branches in >the Handbook it's not a big rush, as long as it's mentioned before 7.0 >comes out, though documentation about if_bridge in the Handbook would >of cause be nice, considering it's also in 6.0 :-). bridge(4) no longer exists in -current and is (effectively) deprecated in 6.x. It is desirable that this is documented in the handbook and the filtering bridges article. I though that the Project guidelines stated that deprecated features had to be retained for a full major release but having checked the Committers' Guide, it's only required that they be retained until the next major release. This means that it's not essential that the handbook be updated before 6.0-RELEASE but it is desirable that the updates occur early in the 6.x-STABLE cycle to provide adequate notice. There's no reason why the handbook can't mention both (or, preferably, all three) bridging devices - it just needs to mention that if_bridge doesn't exist in 5.x -- Peter Jeremy