On Monday 09 June 2008, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > On Sunday 08 June 2008, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > [...] > > Oh and if you just want to review the changes you can get the patch from > > > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~aggelos/A1-sockbuf.patch > > > > This won't apply to current HEAD of course. > > And the reason for that can be found at > http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/NetMP > > One issue I forgot to mention is that I haven't updated some obscure protocols > to the new interface. Do we care about ncp/ipx and friends? I very much doubt > anyone is using them on DragonFly, so there's a good chance they're broken in > HEAD too. Also, I don't know how they're supposed to work or how to set them > up and test them. In any case, I think it would be a waste of time. At this > point they are mostly a maintainance burden. Is there any objection to > removing them?
No objection then. Should we do this before or after the release? > SCTP is another protocol I've broken, but this is different because SCTP may > become relevant. Does anyone use SCTP on DragonFly now? Updating it may not > be exactly trivial; it seems to be very intimate with the sockbuf internals. > If anyone wants to give it a try, please step forward! I think my time would > be better spent elsewere (it's not as if I can easily test SCTP anyway). So I guess SCTP can be declared an orphan that nobody wants to adopt. Life is hard for code that nobody cares about... Aggelos
