svn commit: r210121 - head/sys/net

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 02:21:48PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> 
> On 15 Jul 2010, at 15:41, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> > Author: luigi
> > Date: Thu Jul 15 14:41:06 2010
> > New Revision: 210121
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210121
> > 
> > Log:
> >  small portability fix to build on linux/windows
> 
> Do we really want this, especially on sys?

the alternative would be to keep a separate tree with cross
platform sources, and periodically import the code in FreeBSD.

This seems largely overkill considering that

1. most of the development of ipfw/dummynet occurs within FreeBSD
   and there are several people besides myself contributing features
   and bugfixes;
2. as you can see, the number and size of OS-specific parts is very very
   small (this was one of my goals when porting it) so there
   is no loss of readability. Also, I am deliberately avoiding
   any change that would cause a loss of performance on FreeBSD:
   in case, i put the extra burden on other platforms.

cheers
luigi