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

[Ben Greear]

On 03/31/2010 03:04 AM, Adam Greenhalgh wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but it should be at least no worse than existing svn.  If anyone
uses freebsd and finds bugs, I'm willing to take a try at fixing it.

I'm not aware of anyone actually using xorp on BSD...perhaps they will
speak up if they are!

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com