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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:25:09 +0200
From:      Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r190944 - in head/contrib/libpcap: . bpf/net pcap
Message-ID:  <20090411182508.GL78186@droso.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090411214746.92c585da.stas@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200904111736.n3BHaBP7093616@svn.freebsd.org> <1281775D-CD42-4430-9ED0-8472F10826EA@gmail.com> <20090411214746.92c585da.stas@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:47:46PM +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:37:28 +0100
> Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> mentioned:
>=20
> >=20
> > On 11 Apr 2009, at 18:36, Rui Paulo wrote:
> >=20
> > > Author: rpaulo
> > > Date: Sat Apr 11 17:36:11 2009
> > > New Revision: 190944
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/190944
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >  Revert previous commit that commented out some bpf functions.
> > >  Unconstify arguments of bpf_image(), bpf_filter() and bpf_dump(). =
=20
> > > This
> > >  is needed because some ports rely heavely on these arguments (some of
> > >  them even roll out their own implemenentations of bpf_dump).
> >=20
> > We can revisit this issue in the future if ports start complying with =
=20
> > new libpcap headers.
> >=20
>=20
> Have you analyzed how much ports depend on this? We can fix them locally
> if the number is not that high. We have already done that with usb and ot=
her
> changes.
>=20
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsBrokenOnCurrent near the bottom.

About 8 ports, so definately fixable.  How do other OSes handle this?
it would certainly be a good thing to be consistent with them for
portability and easier upstream integreation.

Cheers,
-erwin

--=20
Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult                   erwin@FreeBSD.org
especially about the future                       erwin@aauug.dk

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