HEADS UP: tenetative plan to merge VIMAGE parts

[Mikolaj Golub]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

 BAZ> On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

 BAZ> Hi,

 >> next week I plan to extract the initial parts from perforce and merge
 >> them to SVN. This will include:
 >>
 >> 1) vnet socket pushdown.

 BAZ> As some might have noticed I committed a bit of the "noise" from that
 BAZ> already.  It's proven kind of hard to extract the things from perforce
 BAZ> with an additional several months of development and changes on top,
 BAZ> but it'll be easier with every commit to SVN;)

 BAZ> I will continue to directly commit small changes to SVN while I will
 BAZ> post larger ones here for review/testing.  If you are tracking VIMAGE
 BAZ> in HEAD and anything breaks for you please yell at me!

 BAZ> Here's the vnet socket push back patch:
 BAZ> http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20110213-01-vnet-socket-pushdown.diff

 BAZ> I have done some but not thorough testing on the patch.  Given it
 BAZ> should be a complete extract from p4 I have been using it for more
 BAZ> than half a year though;)

 BAZ> I plan to commit this early-mid-weekish, so if you want to test let me
 BAZ> know by then.

I did not do much testing but the patch works for me.

 BAZ> If you are on stable/8 you might want to apply the combined upcoming
 BAZ> merge patch before the above:
 BAZ> http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20110213-02-vnet-mfc01.diff

Running my notebook (stable/8) with these patches.

 BAZ> I'd suggest we'll check an updated smbfs patch after that and get it
 BAZ> in (if still needed).

Previously I patched smb_trantcp.c in order to prevent crashes when mounting
smbfs. Now it looks likes I don't need it any more -- smb works without that
patch.

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Mikolaj Golub