if_fwe -> BURN_BRIDGES?

[Robert Watson]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:

> since the author is still around, what does it cost us to keep it until
> he is ready to dump it.. 

I think that's what I'm suggesting, in practice. :-)  That said, we should
clearly document a preference for using the standards compliant
implementation, now that we have one.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research


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> On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Robert Watson wrote:
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> > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
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> > > Now that we have dfr's IP-over-1394 code in the tree, I suggest we
> > > consider depracating if_fwe(4) as it's nonstandard anyway. What does
> > > everyone else think? 
> > 
> > If the if_fwe code is present in FreeBSD 4.x, but dfr's new IP over
> > firewire code isn't, I'd suggest a more gentle deprecation path so that
> > 6.x and 4.x can talk to each other :-). 
> > 
> > Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> > robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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