Interested in contributing towards the items in Wiki

2010-02-09 Thread Balaji G
Hi Everybody I am interested in contributing towards some of the items mentioned in the wiki link. Though I am quite new to FreeBSD and have been reading the kernel networking part and in fact working on back porting ECMP fixes to 7.2 from 8.0. I have sent a patch to the Mailing List too and also

struct sockaddr * and alignment

2010-02-09 Thread M. Warner Losh
Greetings, I've found a few inconsistencies in the sockaddr stuff in the tree. I'm not sure where to go to get a definitive answer, so I thought I'd start here. I got here looking at the recent wake breakage on mips. It turns out that the warning was: src/usr.sbin/wake/wake.c: In function 'find

RE: struct sockaddr * and alignment

2010-02-09 Thread Li, Qing
> > Sure enough, that fixes this warning. Yea. But, sadly, it causes > other problems. If you look at sbin/atm/atmconfig/natm.c you'll see > code like: > > static void > store_route(struct rt_msghdr *rtm) > { > ... > char *cp > struct sockaddr *sa; > ... > > cp = (char

Re: struct sockaddr * and alignment

2010-02-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:34:11AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > I've found a few inconsistencies in the sockaddr stuff in the tree. > I'm not sure where to go to get a definitive answer, so I thought I'd > start here. > > I got here looking at the recent wake breakage on mips. I

Re: [PATCH] net:: ECMP Phase 1 Fixes for FreeBSD 7.2

2010-02-09 Thread jhell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:39, balajig81@ wrote: Hi Everybody Please find attached the patch files which contains the backported code for ECMP for FreeBSD 7.2. I have back ported the code from 8.0. I have done some basic testing with these patches rolled in. These are the phase 1 fixes and i would c

Re: [PATCH] net:: ECMP Phase 1 Fixes for FreeBSD 7.2

2010-02-09 Thread Balaji G
Hi Jhell > Delete keys get in the way some times ;) I am sorry i didn't understand your comment. Is it wrong or should i change something, please let me know so that i could create an other patch . PS: I had also sent an email to the list to take up some items mentioned in the Wiki Page under th

Re: Interested in contributing towards the items in Wiki

2010-02-09 Thread Leena M.
Balaji , you can take topic of your interest & start working on it. for that first you need to have a test setup for testing your code. Regards, Onkar On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Balaji G wrote: > Hi Everybody > > I am interested in contributing towards some of the items mentioned in the