fwe -> fwip in GENERIC?

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Oct 17 12:51:31 PDT 2005


On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:58:38PM -0700, 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.

Are they incompatable?  If no, just add fwip.  If so, can that be fixed?

-- Brooks

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