Re: tcpcb (was Re: sockbuf (was Re: BGL-free net stack))

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Aggelos Economopoulos
<aoiko@cc.ece.ntua.gr> wrote:
> On Monday 09 June 2008, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 June 2008, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
>> [...]
>> > Oh and if you just want to review the changes you can get the patch from
>> >
>> > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~aggelos/A1-sockbuf.patch
>> >
>> > This won't apply to current HEAD of course.
>>
>> And the reason for that can be found at
>> http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/NetMP
>>
>> One issue I forgot to mention is that I haven't updated some obscure protocols
>> to the new interface. Do we care about ncp/ipx and friends? I very much doubt
>> anyone is using them on DragonFly, so there's a good chance they're broken in
>> HEAD too. Also, I don't know how they're supposed to work or how to set them
>> up and test them. In any case, I think it would be a waste of time. At this
>> point they are mostly a maintainance burden. Is there any objection to
>> removing them?
>
> No objection then. Should we do this before or after the release?

I suggest to move out netproto/{ns, ipx, atalk, ncp} like what we did
for the alpha port, so if someone interested to pick it again, they
still have it there.

Best Regards,
sephe

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