Archie Cobbs writes: > Re: the -stable patch. I agree we need a more general MFC/cleanup > of some of the mbuf improvements from -current into -stable. > If I find time perhaps I'll do that as well, but in a separate patch. > For the present time, I'll commit this once 4.6-REL is done.
The best improvements (IMHO, anyway) are the changes in the way external mbufs are referenced and dereferenced. It greatly simplifies writing code that uses external mbufs. However, you need to carefully consider what you backport. We want to try to avoid breaking ABI compatibility for 3rd party vendors who ship binary network interface drivers. At Myricom, we offer a binary driver built on 4.1.1-RELEASE and it works through 4.5-RELEASE(*). It would be bad to loose this feature. So I'd oppose MFC'ing anything that breaks binary compatibility for network drivers in the 4.x line. The last thing we want to do is make extra work for the few companies who offer FreeBSD drivers for their hardare. Cheers, Drew (*) We also ship source, but building from source is somewhat of a pain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
