Re: fwe -> fwip in GENERIC?

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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Date
17 Oct 2005 19:51:30
Subject
Re: fwe -> fwip in GENERIC?
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20051017195130.GC15097@odin.ac.hmc.edu

In reply to
Cai, Quanqing (freebsd-net) , Cai, Quanqing (freebsd-firewire) , Cai, Quanqing
References to
Cai, Quanqing (freebsd-net) , Cai, Quanqing (freebsd-firewire) , Cai, Quanqing

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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:58:38PM -0700, Cai, Quanqing wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> When I was fixing bug kern/82727:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/82727, I found we use
> fwe(Ethernet over FireWire) in GENERIC kernel, not fwip(IP over FireWire).
> But we all know that IP over FireWire is more widely used on other OSes, and
> now this bug is fixed, do we need change fwe to fwip?
>
> I talked it with Tai-hwa Liang, he agrees with me. But he suggests me to
> post here for more advices, since there might be some considerations such
> like backward compatibility or code size that makes re@ made this decision.
>
> Please give you advice or opinion.
 
Are they incompatable?  If no, just add fwip.  If so, can that be fixed?
 
-- Brooks
 
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