From owner-freebsd-net Tue Nov 6 5:13:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from hanoi.cronyx.ru (hanoi.cronyx.ru [144.206.181.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D37837B405 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 05:13:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by hanoi.cronyx.ru id QAA06819; (8.9.3/vak/2.1) Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:12:21 +0300 (MSK) Received: from cronyx.ru by hanoi.cronyx.ru with ESMTP id QAA06804; (8.9.3/vak/2.1) Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:12:20 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <3BE7E1E5.4040500@cronyx.ru> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 16:13:09 +0300 From: Roman Kurakin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, vak@cronyx.ru Subject: Re: kern/11238, kern/14848, kern/21771, sppp patch's patch_id #1 References: <000901c1134b$827a69a0$48b5ce90@crox> <3BDABF7B.4060808@cronyx.ru> <3BE24EE4.2020506@cronyx.ru> <20011102192916.A43204@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3BE3ED17.3060603@cronyx.ru> <20011103182927.F43204@uriah.heep.sax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Joerg Wunsch wrote: >As Roman Kurakin wrote: > >>>You've already got one from me. >>> >>I thought someone else maintains this part of kernel. Was I wrong? >> I could have been more curious and checked developer list. >Probably. At least it was me who wrote larger parts of the current >sppp implementation. As mentioned, it's very unfortunate that a >number of offspring implementations evolved in the past, mainly in >ISDN4BSD and in NetBSD. It's still my goal to merge the ISDN4BSD >version completely (there's no need to have two functionally very >similar implementations in our source tree, and i promised this merge >to Hellmuth Michaelis), and my review of NetBSD so far has shown that >they've also fixed a number of bugs (and added some useful features). > Original version was written by Serge Vakulenko ( vak@cronyx.ru ), and we together keep on development and fixing current version. (we have numerous fixes in PPP and CISCO code and we could offer new Frame Relay code). >Get me right, i wouldn't mind passing this task to someone else :), >but the issue here is that both trees should not be merged as a large >blurb diff, but patches should rather be taken piecewise from their >trees so our CVS history remains clear and the impact can be >overlooked by someone else by just following CVS. The NetBSD CVS is >now publically available, and i've also got the ISDN4BSD CVS tree >here. > We might synchronize our efforts somehow, but I am not strong in NetBSD... :( I plan to make set of patches, but I it would be easy for me to make a new one only after previous, cause some of them could depend one from another. >The downside of all this is that it takes a FreeBSD committer to do it >(i expect some two dozens of committs approximately), and someone >who's got quite a bit of time at hand. > I thought all FreeBSD developers have access to FreeBSD tree? Best regards, Kurakin Roman > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message