Hi Max, On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:20:05PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Oh ... forgot about that ... there are several problems with that. First > of all RELENG_6 is missing the interface group infrastructure which is > essential to pf now. This makes it difficult to produce patches. I > could do it, but ... I see. > > Do you plan on MFC'ing pf-4.1 to RELENG_6 before RELENG_6_3 is > > branched? > > ... it can never be MFCed due to the ABI breakage in several essential > places (ifnet and pf ioctls). > > There is some work going on in OpenBSD 4.2 to reduce userland ABI changes > in the future, but for now updating pf means breaking ABIs means no MFC > unfortunately. Ah, of course - didn't think of that. Guess we'll just have to wait for 7.0 to hit the streets, then :) Thank you for working on this. Regards, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik_at_brixandersen.dk>
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