Ben, On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:12:27PM -0500, Ben Kaduk wrote: B> > G> It's not a big deal for me, I have no problem with replacing them on B> > G> FreeBSD. FreeBSD is not even officially supported platform for the B> > G> product and I build/test on FreeBSD solely for the purpose of avoiding B> > G> linuxisms and platform specific behaviour. Let's hope it won't break for B> > G> somebody else :) B> > B> > I'm pretty sure it will not break anyone, except for people still living B> > in Internet with classdful addressing. Do you know any? B> B> Not directly as classful addressing per se, but the interpretation of B> an address as possibly-classful is encoded in the voting algorithm for B> the ubik server elections that make our AFS distributed filesystem B> work. We support having ubik servers on quite a few different OSes, B> and we can only change the voting algorithm with an OpenAFS major B> version number bump because of our interoperability guarantees. B> I'm not willing to claim that removing classfull addressing will B> preserve the voting algorithm without an in-depth review that I don't B> have time to undertake. B> B> When you removed ia_net{,mask} from struct in_ifaddr (with no B> __FreeBSD_version bump! And then merged it to 9.0 during the RC B> stage!), I had to scramble to keep net/openafs compiling and with the B> same functionality. It turns out that there is another code path in B> OpenAFS (used by e.g. Darwin) that instead uses the IN_CLASSA() family B> of macros, so I could preserve compatibility. But if you go and B> remove those too, I am screwed. B> B> Please don't just assume that no one is using classful addressing and B> remove things ahead of a reasonable deprecation schedule.
I'm sorry for that :( I should have bumped __FreeBSD_version. I don't plan to remove what currently left from classes: the macros, and the autoguessing in the case if mask isn't supplied. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"