[Xorp-hackers] Committed a fix for MTU and carrier detect on older systems.

[Adam Greenhalgh]

On 31 March 2010 07:06, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> On 03/30/2010 10:55 PM, Adam Greenhalgh wrote:
>> Hi Ben
>>
>> I think we need to have a discussion about what the best way to take
>> patches from you is. Without tagging in xorp.ct, i think its going to
>> be tricky to take a full patch from you without making mistakes. I am
>> not sure that tagging is the best approach certainly isn't. Perhaps we
>> need to have a xorp patches mailing list or upload location where the
>> raw diff can be posted. Does anyone have any views on this ?
>
> I auto-generate email when I commit a patch.  I can easily have it send
> mail to some mailing list.
>
> That said, unless you really understand xorp, you may have difficulty
> picking patches from my tree and making them work properly.  I'm
> still hoping I can push everything upstream at once and then fix any bugs that
> pop up.  I've found and fixed several recently for folks using xorp.ct
> on older kernels and such.  I'm sure there are more bugs, but there have
> definitely been some successes too.
>
Pushing your entire tree is certainly one way to go, I guess the key
issue is maintaining FreeBSD support along side Linux since I
understand that most of your changes and focus is Linux related.

Adam