kern/68110 (rfc 3522)

[George V. Neville-Neil]

Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org> said:
> Jon Noack wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone looked at kern/68110?
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/68110

> The situation is a little bit complicated.  I agree that having RFC3522
> is a good thing.

> However there is a political problem with the author of the rfc3522 of
> DFBSD.  He is also still a FreeBSD committer, but for political reasons
> he has very much refrained from doing any FreeBSD work for about a year
> now.  About six or seven month ago I had a port of rfc3522 ready in my
> tree and wanted to commit it.  He vetoed me and said he would do it by
> himself.  Yet for those political reasons he wont do any work on FreeBSD
> including this.  The only way to solve this is that either someone simply
> committs it (this is BSD licensed code after all) and pisses him off, or
> someone convinces him to do it himself (which I don't think he will).

> Deadlock...

I believe that this deadlock can be broken, if you still have
code/patch for this, by your proposing of that patch.  I'm sure a
single committer will not block new work going forward.

I'll review what you've got, at the very least.  Let's get this in
there.

Later,
George