Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Dear all, let me initiate a spinoff subject related to Axel Beckert's followup from the FOSDEM meeting. My interest in activating option QUOTA is well known. My work from last week points also to option IPSEC option IPSEC_NAT_T device crypto device enc However, I have

Re: Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Millan
2011/2/8 Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se: Anyway, there is certainly functionality that is not default in upstream FreeBSD, but could justly be considered mandatory for GNU/kFreeBSD. Could we collect some kind of central information source on this matter? I would suggest

Re: Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Witold Baryluk
On 02-08 14:49, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Dear all, let me initiate a spinoff subject related to Axel Beckert's followup from the FOSDEM meeting. My interest in activating option QUOTA is well known. My work from last week points also to option IPSEC option IPSEC_NAT_T

Re: Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
tisdag den 8 februari 2011 klockan 15:50 skrev Robert Millan detta: 2011/2/8 Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se: Anyway, there is certainly functionality that is not default in upstream FreeBSD, but could justly be considered mandatory for GNU/kFreeBSD. Could we collect some

Re: Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Millan
2011/2/8 Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se: If you and other are of the view that the BTS is the best first step, then I will abide that mechanism of raising any issues concerning the capacity of the packaged kernel. That's my first impression, but keep in mind my voice is not

Re: Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Petr Salinger
A particular example I have encounterd is ipsec-tools where a recent upload aims at adaptions to BSD, but where the present kernel is neither supporting the API, nor the relevant devices. Here I will prepare information for making an official decision in the end, but other cases are certain to

Re: Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se writes: Anyway, there is certainly functionality that is not default in upstream FreeBSD, but could justly be considered mandatory for GNU/kFreeBSD. Could we collect some kind of central information source on this matter? Thanks for the

Re: Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 18:55:25 +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: If you and other are of the view that the BTS is the best first step, then I will abide that mechanism of raising any issues concerning the capacity of the packaged kernel. The mails into BTS are forwarded to maintainer e-mail

Re: Additional kernel options and devices

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Millan
2011/2/8 Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org: [...] upstream might not have enabled them because they are not deemed ready for wider use, for stability, performance, or other reasons. A possible solution to this could be to build another kernel image flavour with some default diverging options