On 03/07/16 06:56, Chris Johns wrote:
On 30/06/2016 20:22, Deval Shah wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org
<mailto:chr...@rtems.org>> wrote:
It might pay for us to add these to an RTEMS header to make porting
simpler.
Can't we update our sys/net/if.c and sys/net/if_var.h files accourding
to new FreeBSD ?
I don't think its a good idea to selectively update random files of the
network stack core.
I do not know. Currently we have a policy of keeping as much at the
snapshot point as we can. Sebastian has looked at moving to FreeBSD 10
and backed off doing so because it was more work than he could handle
due to changes in FreeBSD 10.
I am not against something like this being merged if the change is
localised to just those files, it works, and the existing drivers
work. If the change ripples out across the code base then it would be
a problem.
Partial updates make it harder and harder to do a major update. I did
this for complete subsystems like SDCard/MMC/USB, however, doing this
for individual files is really a problem if want to update. The blocking
point for an easy update to FreeBSD 10 or 11 are the user space command
line programs like ifconfig and route. We need a better general approach
to deal with user space programs. We may have time to do an update later
this year.
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