>> So, you're saying I should have done my AF_TIMER work in -current? >> Labeled control structure? diskwatch? pfw? WSEMUL_MTERM? >> tun(4)-for-IPv6? v6-capable SLIP? netstat -T? touch -d and -i? > To me, some of those seem like they'd be fine to have done in > NetBSD-current. Why didn't you do things like WSEMUL_MTERM there? > Is it mostly because you track an older version of NetBSD?
At this point, yes. I don't recall the reasons behind them for most of those - for example, I don't recall whether I was still supping -current when I did WSEMUL_MTERM, though I feel reasonably sure I was no longer routinely building and using it. There are also some (which I didn't mention) which I don't think NetBSD _should_ adopt, such as changing the default /etc/localtime link target to .../Canada/Eastern. I think the biggest reasons I haven't tried to push any of those into NetBSD are (1) a perception that NetBSD doesn't want my changes, combined with (2) a lack of motivation to, a sort of "NetBSD no longer cares about me; why should I care about it?" feeling. (Note that I'm not saying anything about how justifiable - or correct! - these feelings are.) That said.... I'd certainly be happy to offer any-to-all of my changes to anyone who wants to bring them into NetBSD. Except for v6-capable SLIP and the touch(1) options, all the things I listed are things I've been using in personal production use for long enough I'm confident they work fairly well, though I have a suspicion there's a kernel memory leak lurking in the AF_TIMER code[%]. Those exceptions I haven't used much, but I think they may well be integration-ready anyway - that would be something to discuss. [%] There's certainly a kernel memory leak _somewhere_ in one of my versions' kernel, and what vague data I have on it seems to correlate its striking with AF_TIMER socket use. If anyone's interested, of course. My expectation has been that nobody is, but this email makes me think that could well be wrong. I can easily pull a full list of changes I've made and mail it wherever. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B