HEADSUP: arp-v2 has been committed

Gerald Pfeifer gerald at pfeifer.com
Mon Dec 29 08:54:53 UTC 2008


On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Saturday 27 December 2008 21:21:25 Qing Li wrote:
>> I believe all of the affected ports have been updated to 
>> include the conditional blocks around RTF_LLINFO.

emulators/wine has not been adjusted yet, pending this discussion.

> Yes, and I'm OK with this. It's just that this makes FreeBSD 8
> a special case.

Agreed.

> If it's easy to reintroduce it and become backwards compatible I
> would do it. Like Julian said, you can give it the value 0. It
> would be nice if the kernel tested for the old value as well,
> perhaps behind an #ifdef COMPAT_FREEBSD*. That way when people
> upgrade to FreeBSD 8 all their ports compiled under FreeBSD 7
> keep working.

What of this will be doable, Qing?  I guess Tijl and me need to
understand when/whether/what to submit to Wine upstream...

Gerald


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