Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:18:44 -0800 From: "Li, Qing" <qing.li@bluecoat.com> To: "Gerald Pfeifer" <gerald@pfeifer.com>, "Tijl Coosemans" <tijl@ulyssis.org>, "Qing Li" <qingli@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HEADSUP: arp-v2 has been committed Message-ID: <B583FBF374231F4A89607B4D08578A4302B1CAC5@bcs-mail03.internal.cacheflow.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.99.0812290925070.23595@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20081227202117.F3B14341A3@cavin02.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be><200812281613.49404.tijl@ulyssis.org> <alpine.LSU.1.99.0812290925070.23595@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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Hi, >=20 > > If it's easy to reintroduce it and become backwards compatible I > > would do it. Like Julian said, you can give it the value 0. It > > would be nice if the kernel tested for the old value as well, > > perhaps behind an #ifdef COMPAT_FREEBSD*. That way when people > > upgrade to FreeBSD 8 all their ports compiled under FreeBSD 7 > > keep working. >=20 > What of this will be doable, Qing? I guess Tijl and me need to > understand when/whether/what to submit to Wine upstream... >=20 I don't think we can provide binary compatibility without putting back RTF_LLINFO exactly as it was. My preference is to continue down=20 the new path without RTF_LLINFO. We still have some time before the 8.0 release. It's straightforward for me to retain some of the RTF_LLINFO support in the new kernel if and when the situation becomes necessary. >>>=20 >>> I believe all of the affected ports have been updated to=20 >>> include the conditional blocks around RTF_LLINFO. So=20 >>> there is still a level of compatibility, right ? >> Yes, and I'm OK with this. It's just that this makes FreeBSD 8 >> a special case. >=20 > Agreed. > Since the affected ports now have the conditional code around RTF_LLINFO,=20 the updates would allow these ports to compile in both -current and in the=20 previous releases. Let's go with this approach.=20 Thanks, -- Qing
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