fwe -> fwip in GENERIC?

Katsushi Kobayashi ikob at koganei.wide.ad.jp
Fri Oct 14 19:35:59 PDT 2005


Hi,

Although I don't know the detail of fwe technology, I understand the
technology is a proprietary one. It is better to provide a compatibility
with RFC standard firewire over IP, if some volunteer are there.

On 2005/10/15, at 9:58, Cai, Quanqing wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> When I was fixing bug kern/82727:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/82727, I found we use
> fwe(Ethernet over FireWire) in GENERIC kernel, not fwip(IP over  
> FireWire).
> But we all know that IP over FireWire is more widely used on other  
> OSes, and
> now this bug is fixed, do we need change fwe to fwip?
>
> I talked it with Tai-hwa Liang, he agrees with me. But he suggests  
> me to
> post here for more advices, since there might be some  
> considerations such
> like backward compatibility or code size that makes re@ made this  
> decision.
>
> Please give you advice or opinion.
>
> Best
> Cai, Quanqing
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