Hi Max,

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:20:05PM +0200, Max Laier wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Oh ... forgot about that ... there are several problems with that.  First 
> of all RELENG_6 is missing the interface group infrastructure which is 
> essential to pf now.  This makes it difficult to produce patches.  I 
> could do it, but ...

I see.

> > Do you plan on MFC'ing pf-4.1 to RELENG_6 before RELENG_6_3 is
> > branched?
> 
> ... it can never be MFCed due to the ABI breakage in several essential 
> places (ifnet and pf ioctls).
> 
> There is some work going on in OpenBSD 4.2 to reduce userland ABI changes 
> in the future, but for now updating pf means breaking ABIs means no MFC 
> unfortunately.

Ah, of course - didn't think of that. Guess we'll just have to wait
for 7.0 to hit the streets, then :)

Thank you for working on this.

Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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