From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 2 20:33:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431751065670 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:33:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@free.fr) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (smtp4-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B47B8FC08 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6176B4C81C3 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:33:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.herbelot.nom (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 722D04C81B2 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:33:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from tulipe.herbelot.nom (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.5]) by mail.herbelot.nom (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id nB2KXevn004233 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:33:41 +0100 (CET) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:33:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20091202102541.GA71448@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20091202102541.GA71448@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200912022133.35567.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> Subject: Re: heads up - upcoming dummynet/ipfw refactoring X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:33:51 -0000 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