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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:33:35 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@free.fr>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: heads up - upcoming dummynet/ipfw refactoring
Message-ID:  <200912022133.35567.thierry.herbelot@free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20091202102541.GA71448@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20091202102541.GA71448@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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Le Wednesday 02 December 2009, Luigi Rizzo a écrit :
> Hi,
> in the next weeks i am going to slowly push into -head (and when
> possible also in RELENG_8) several restructuring and cleanup changes
> in dummynet and ipfw.  This is the result of work we have been doing
> in Pisa in the last few months with Riccardo Panicucci and Marta
> Carbone.

Hello,

This is a big piece of news : finding someone with enough courage to dive 
into "oldish" code ;-)

> I am trying to organize the commits so that the ABI CHANGE
> WILL BE HARMLESS -- basically, we have implemented some
> compatibility code in the kernel so that NEW KERNELS
> WILL UNDERSTAND THE OLD USERLAND (from 7.x and above).

Great : will test the new code along, when it comes out

	Cheers

	TfH



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