From owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 10:14:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD12106566B; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:14:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from piso@southcross.wired.org) Received: from mail.oltrelinux.com (krisma.oltrelinux.com [194.242.226.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA918FC1D; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:14:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from piso@southcross.wired.org) Received: from southcross.wired.org (host-84-221-78-158.cust-adsl.tiscali.it [84.221.78.158]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.oltrelinux.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD5811AE75; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:14:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (from piso@localhost) by southcross.wired.org (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id m23AHKDK034084; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:17:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from piso) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:17:19 +0100 From: Paolo Pisati To: Luigi Rizzo Message-ID: <20080303101718.GA34056@tin.it> References: <20080302144939.GA23353@tin.it> <20080302145850.GA33308@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080302145850.GA33308@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at krisma.oltrelinux.com Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org, Paolo Pisati , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw initialization: SI_ORDER_ANY -> SI_ORDER_MIDDLE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: IPFW Technical Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:14:21 -0000 On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > The SI_ORDER_* definitions in /sys/sys/kernel.h are enumerated on a > large range, so if the existing code does not have races, > you can safely move the non-leaf modules > (such as ipfw,ko in your case) to (SI_ORDER_ANY - some_small_integer) > without breaking anything. fine, i did this. is it MFCable? bye, P.