Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:43:55 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, Maxim.Sobolev@portaone.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: bridge(4) removed from HEAD Message-ID: <20050928084355.GY40237@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050928061331.GA867@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200509272026.28950.max@love2party.net> <433A0D6D.5060802@portaone.com> <20050928061331.GA867@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Wed, 2005-Sep-28 08:13:32 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >Considering that we only (more or less) document -STABLE branches in >the Handbook it's not a big rush, as long as it's mentioned before 7.0 >comes out, though documentation about if_bridge in the Handbook would >of cause be nice, considering it's also in 6.0 :-). bridge(4) no longer exists in -current and is (effectively) deprecated in 6.x. It is desirable that this is documented in the handbook and the filtering bridges article. I though that the Project guidelines stated that deprecated features had to be retained for a full major release but having checked the Committers' Guide, it's only required that they be retained until the next major release. This means that it's not essential that the handbook be updated before 6.0-RELEASE but it is desirable that the updates occur early in the 6.x-STABLE cycle to provide adequate notice. There's no reason why the handbook can't mention both (or, preferably, all three) bridging devices - it just needs to mention that if_bridge doesn't exist in 5.x -- Peter Jeremy
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