Li, Qing wrote:
Hi Hartmut,
I appreciate your candid feedback. You raised many valid points.
I combined both of your emails in this reply, please see my
comments below ...
<snip>
You are absolutely right. This was a complete oversight on my part.
I was telling myself "I think I am forgetting something".
... then I remembered when the first port breakage report arrived ;-)
To be fair though, I did send a message titled
"last call for L2/L3 rewrite code review" a week before the commit
to net@, current@ and all of the developers.
And I have sent many emails on this subject in the past few years.
A couple of points I hope you could recognize:
1. The arp-v2 project replaces a major networking kernel design and
all of its dependencies that have been in operation for many years
(16+ ??). The networking kernel went through quite a surgery so
do expect things will continue to evolve.
2. This is the first time I am making such a major change in the
kernel. Since I am still learning the process, I am bound to
make mistakes but I will not repeat these mistakes in the future.
My goal is to be diligent in monitoring the problem reports and
provide timely responses and fixes.
And finally I want to thank you and others for your hard work in
helping me cleaning up the ports.
Well, my mail was probably somewhat harsh, I'm usually more polite. You
know, that's the kind of mood you are in after a couple of hours of
useless work. Of course I appreciate your work and, I must say, you're
an hero for taking this.
In any case there is still an Todo on my side: the routing information
for NETNATM is currently lost somewhere between L2 and L3 :-) I guess I
come back to you in the new year to fix this issue... Have to fetch my
ATM equipment from the corner where it is collecting dust to setup a
testbed.
In the mean time I will do an bsnmp import to fix the arp table problem.
keep on your good work,
harti
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