Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 16:37:31 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: rlb@mindspring.com (Ron Bolin) Subject: Re: CVSUP RELENG_2_2 Question Message-ID: <19970405163731.AI51903@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <l03010d00af6bf9f452c0@[208.2.87.4]>; from Richard Wackerbarth on Apr 5, 1997 06:49:08 -0600 References: <33464317.2E0F@mindspring.com> <l03010d00af6bf9f452c0@[208.2.87.4]>
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As Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > No. You have the correct tag for the 2.2 tree. > However, it is likely that the current ipfilter stuff has not > been placed in that tree yet. Indeed. I've considered to merge it into 2.2, but eventually gave up. It was (and IMHO still is) in a defunct state as it's in the tree now. You need a lot of handwork in order to get it going. The source is in src/contrib, sure, but that's about almost all. It cannot be built as part of the kernel, only as an LKM yet. However, the LKM hooks to build it (under src/lkm) are missing, so it won't be build as an LKM by default. Likewise, the entire command hierarchy hooks that are finally expected to reference src/contrib/ipfilter are missing, too. (This probably requires a bunch of stub Makefiles, maybe with a few -D options in their CFLAGS, that reference the contrib stuff via .PATH statements.) The kernel sources can be compiled into a kernel, but not used, since they don't generate cdevsw entries. The required options to get ipfilter statically compiled into your kernel aren't described in LINT and src/sys/conf/options either. Once these points are fixed (which requires someone who's got a clue about how ipfilter is working, and who can test it -- thus not me), ipfilter can be tagged/merged into RELENG_2_2 as well. Note that the above is in no way ment to put somebody/something down here, only as a realistic status report about which things still need to be done (not necessarily by Darren himself) before we can consider it `ready to go'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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