HEADSUP: arp-v2 has been committed

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Sat Dec 27 23:07:28 UTC 2008


Julian Elischer wrote:
> Qing Li wrote:
>>
>>
>> I believe examining the impacts of RTF_LLINFO on the ports was a good 
>> exercise even if we have to rejuvenate it.
>>
>> I hope we could reach a consensus soon now that we have more input 
>> from the ports developers.
>>
>> Please provide your input ...
>
> reintroduce it with value 0
> then teh optimiser should remove dead code...
>
The worry is that this will cause subtle bugs when code assumes 
functionality is present.  We tried yanking this entirely and it's 
obviously caused some issues.  The question now is whether to follow 
through and accept an incompatibility or put back sufficient 
compatibility to enable legacy code to work unchanged.

    Sam



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