Re: netgraph7 - not for release

["Nuno Antunes" <nuno.antunes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> :  >  FreeBSD has moved most of their ppp, atm, pppoe, and other features
> :  >  to netgraph and ours are pretty decrepit so getting this working
> :  >  post-release will be a big benefit to our network stack.
> :
> :I'm on record as saying I think we should axe netgraph completely,
> :rather than updating it.  NetBSD and OpenBSD do no have netgraph
> :and they have working ppp, pppoe, and atm, so clearly netgraph is
> :not required for ppp, pppoe, and atm.  In fact, the big problem
> :I have with having netgraph in our system is then unsuspecting
> :newbies might think they have to use it to do their networking work.
> :I've never met anyone who tried to used netgraph who didn't curse its
> :very existence.
> :
> :                                                       Jeffrey
>
>     Well, netgraph is a big black box to me too but it is also
>     compartmentalized very well and rather easy to port.  The APIs are
>     not moving targets and porting netgraph means we can use all the
>     various utilities that work under it, such as mpd.
>
>     Ok, I do have an ulterior motive here.  I would like DFly to
>     support mpd.
>
>     In anycase, regardless of all of that, just from looking at it I
>     can see that it has one other bright spot, which is that it does
>     not interfere with the any of the *REST* of our networking code.
>
>                                        -Matt
>                                        Matthew Dillon
>                                        <dillon@backplane.com>
>

Hi,

I can volunteer to maintain netgraph7 after the compatibility issues
have been resolved. I have already done some work to update it [1] but
never comited it (couldn't test it enough).

Cheers,
Nuno

[1] http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~nant/wip/netgraph-20080223.diff.bz2