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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:26:48 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/pf/net if_pflog.c if_pflog.h if_pfsync.c if_pfsync.h pf.c pf_ioctl.c pf_norm.c pf_osfp.c pf_table.c pfvar.h src/sys/contrib/pf/netinet in4_cksum.c 
Message-ID:  <9021.1077874008@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:53:22 %2B0100." <xzphdxc29a5.fsf@dwp.des.no> 

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In message <xzphdxc29a5.fsf@dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=
 writes:

>Repeat after me: "layering violations"

They may be layering violations in theory, but in practice it is exactly
the stuff which makes the system usable for a lot of our users.

And while I think that cleaning up our network stack is a valid
journey, I don't think netgraph is the vehicle.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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