From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 28 1:41:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (theory.cs.uni-bonn.de [131.220.4.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BC614CC0 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 01:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de) Received: from cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de (cauchy [131.220.4.169]) by theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA15314; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:40:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from ignatios@localhost) by cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13987; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:40:15 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19990628104015.B13930@cs.uni-bonn.de> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:40:15 +0200 From: Ignatios Souvatzis To: Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: General feeling on merging APIs... References: <199906270422.WAA08307@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.2i In-Reply-To: <199906270422.WAA08307@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:22:29PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:22:29PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199906251653.KAA01796@caspian.plutotech.com> "Justin T. Gibbs" writes: > : The hope is to provide a consistent interface across > : all *BSDs which is why I've addressed this to all of the *BSD projects. > > More generally, I'd like to identify areas where the kernel APIs of > the various projects have diverged and see what, if anything, can be > done about them. I'd also like to get commitment from the various > controlling bodies of the *BSD projects to a statement something along > the lines of: For one: http://www.de.daemonnews.org/199809/underhood.html When I, back then, contacted networking wizards from BSDi and FreeBSD, to explicitly offer them the code, or at least to coordinate the definition of the AF_ARP/PF_ARP constant I neede for it, both weren't interested, apparently because they didn't support, and didn't intend to do so, ARCnet (which is not the whole purpose of that change we did in NetBSD, but that's another story). Regards, Ignatios Souvatzis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message