As Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> No. You have the correct tag for the 2.2 tree.
> However, it is likely that the current ipfilter stuff has not
> been placed in that tree yet.
Indeed.
I've considered to merge it into 2.2, but eventually gave up. It was
(and IMHO still is) in a defunct state as it's in the tree now. You
need a lot of handwork in order to get it going. The source is in
src/contrib, sure, but that's about almost all. It cannot be built as
part of the kernel, only as an LKM yet. However, the LKM hooks to
build it (under src/lkm) are missing, so it won't be build as an LKM
by default. Likewise, the entire command hierarchy hooks that are
finally expected to reference src/contrib/ipfilter are missing, too.
(This probably requires a bunch of stub Makefiles, maybe with a few -D
options in their CFLAGS, that reference the contrib stuff via .PATH
statements.) The kernel sources can be compiled into a kernel, but
not used, since they don't generate cdevsw entries. The required
options to get ipfilter statically compiled into your kernel aren't
described in LINT and src/sys/conf/options either.
Once these points are fixed (which requires someone who's got a clue
about how ipfilter is working, and who can test it -- thus not me),
ipfilter can be tagged/merged into RELENG_2_2 as well.
Note that the above is in no way ment to put somebody/something down
here, only as a realistic status report about which things still need
to be done (not necessarily by Darren himself) before we can consider
it `ready to go'.
--
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