On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Vlad GALU wrote: > >> Will the zero-copy bpf(4) changes be merged to the stable branch before >> the release? > > Dear Vlad: > > Unfortunately, no. The code seems stable in 8-CURRENT, but I don't feel > it's had enough actual testing exposure to go into 7.x yet. Also, the > libpcap changes to support it have only just gone back into the tcpdump.org > distribution of libpcap, and there is non-trivial reworking of that code, so > we'd like to let that settle as well. We've had a number of queries so I > suspect we'll start maintaining a 7.x MFC candidate patch fairly soon (next > couple of months). > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge >
Thanks for your quick reply! I'll start experimenting with HEAD. -- ~/.signature: no such file or directory _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
