backporting dummynet's q_time change ? (svn 184414)

[Oleg Bulyzhin]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:10:28AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> in your logmessage for the q_time change in dummynet
> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=184414
> 
> mentions an ABI change that would prevent backporting.
> 
> However, as far as I can tell, the kernel side of the change is
> fully self-contained in the ip_dummynet module, and the only
> side effect on an out-of-sync userland (/sbin/ipfw) is that
> you would not be able to run "ipfw pipe show" -- but you
> can still configure ipfw rules and pipes and tables without
> problems.
> 
> It seems to me that the change is sufficiently useful to deserve
> a MFC, and the side effects are negligible and do not prevent an
> upgrade with the usual sequence (installkernel-reboot-installworld)
> 
> Any objection to an MFC ?
> 
> cheers
> luigi
> 
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Have you seen this?
http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184506

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Oleg.

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