* Holger Glaess <gla...@glaessixs.de> [2012-06-17 11:41]: > From the very beginning of the project it was clear, that code is going > to diverge significantly from original OpenBSD code. OpenBSD has always > developed pf without taking into account that code can ever get > multithreaded, thus quite a lot needed to be changed. Thus, I've started > with removing the "#ifdef __FreeBSD__" from the code, and later I didn't > hesitate even a fraction of second if I wanted to toss some code. The pros > is that now code is much more readable and understandible then in head, > the cons is that diff between us and OpenBSD is huge, although amount > of shared code is huge, too. So, later on only manual merging of features > from OpenBSD is possible and bulk imports of entire pf into FreeBSD are > no longer possible.
now if they had updated their pf to a current one first we had certainly be willing to look at their locking changes with the goal to get them over. but this way? pointless. sad. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
