CARP in RELENG_4

[Frank]

Hi,

The reason that I'm considering the backport is that I'm not yet convinced
that RELENG_5 has the same level of stability as FreeBSD 4.x has.

I understand of course that introducing this patch, might create an
instability... But the patch itself is rather small, and not extrenely
complex, so it might be worth a try.

Regards,

Frank


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-pf at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-pf at freebsd.org] On
Behalf Of Max Laier
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:14
To: freebsd-pf at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: CARP in RELENG_4


On Sunday 10 October 2004 12:37, Frank wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about using the CARP patchset
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/CARP/20040823-carp.RELENG_5.diff
>
> and porting it back to RELENG_4.
>
> Before I start doing that, I want to check first, if this is an
> accomplishable goal. So, my question is, does anybody know a reason (eg.
> major incompatibility beteen FreeBSD 4.x and FreeBSD 5.x) that makes this
> task difficult or even impossible? Or can this be done easily enough????

You will certainly have some API gaps to fill. Some will be very obvious (as

you will just hit undefined functions) some will be more disturbing as
functions may act differently. All in all it should be doable. Yet with a
certain amount of work.

That said, I don't see the point. RELENG_4 is past now, hail to RELENG_5 :-)

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