Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:04:05 +0900 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/68110 (rfc 3522) Message-ID: <m2659ihktm.wl@minion.local.neville-neil.com>
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Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> said: > Jon Noack wrote: > > > > Has anyone looked at kern/68110? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/68110 > The situation is a little bit complicated. I agree that having RFC3522 > is a good thing. > However there is a political problem with the author of the rfc3522 of > DFBSD. He is also still a FreeBSD committer, but for political reasons > he has very much refrained from doing any FreeBSD work for about a year > now. About six or seven month ago I had a port of rfc3522 ready in my > tree and wanted to commit it. He vetoed me and said he would do it by > himself. Yet for those political reasons he wont do any work on FreeBSD > including this. The only way to solve this is that either someone simply > committs it (this is BSD licensed code after all) and pisses him off, or > someone convinces him to do it himself (which I don't think he will). > Deadlock... I believe that this deadlock can be broken, if you still have code/patch for this, by your proposing of that patch. I'm sure a single committer will not block new work going forward. I'll review what you've got, at the very least. Let's get this in there. Later, Georgehome | help
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