Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 22:14:36 -0600 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?w5Z6a2FuIEtJUklL?= <ozkan.kirik@gmail.com>, Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org>, freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 7f944794868f - stable/12 - pf: Introduce ridentifier Message-ID: <CACNAnaGMzL37_vDW0hOhXUya--psT6-nW6Tf%2BLqgtQ01v1jz9A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <A6EEDA8E-08DA-4EAD-B25D-C99DC0F9E182@lastsummer.de> References: <202111261940.1AQJeGLZ022802@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <CAAcX-AFshuFUo7g9q_S3%2B5iS3Ko_Y%2BD0M5_nNEMPWOeMp66T3Q@mail.gmail.com> <A6EEDA8E-08DA-4EAD-B25D-C99DC0F9E182@lastsummer.de>
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On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 7:16 AM Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > I wasn't sure if responding is a good idea but basically ridentifier > and the 3-labels extension added to pf from the pfSense area are more > or less unnecessary cruft and easily worked around the kernel: use the > label as a unique identifier and do the rest in userspace... > > I'm sure not a lot of people care for the state that Netgate puts FreeBSD > in (again and again) but for the sake of ABI stability alone it would be > nicer to avoid such work in stable areas. > Hi Franco, You might have had a valid point here, but I'm afraid it got buried beneath being needlessly antagonistic. I know that you've not had the best relationship with Netgate, but please avoid doing that if you'd like to have a constructive conversation about stuff like this. You can still raise the question of whether a feature has value or not without a lot of what you added there. Thanks, Kyle Evans
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