Future of the netgraph in DragonFly?

[Nuno Antunes]

Hi,

After Matt imported netgraph7, I worked a bit on it to make it compile
and work. But this effort has been interrupted by real job so I tend
to work on it on and off.

Let me prepare a patch with what I have, and I will upload it for you to see.

Cheers,
Nuno


On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Dennis Melentyev
<dennis.melentyev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 2008/12/6 Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org>:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Dennis Melentyev wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry for bringing back quite old topic, but now it's the time I am
>>> interested in mpd :)
>>>
>>> Today I just compiled (but not tested) libpdel-0.5.3 (just a bunch of
>>> #ifdefs,  GET_COOKIE() -> fcookie define,  NG_HOOKLEN and NG_PATHLEN
>>> macros).
>>>
>>> The problem with mpd4.4.1 is much more complex for me: I'm not that
>>> experienced with make to re-create bsd.ports.mk and friends. Also, I'm
>>> not aware of actual status of DFBSD's netgraph.
>>>
>>> Could it be a good day to revisit mpd-on-DragonFly issue?
>>
>> As good as any other. The main question is still the state of netgraph in
>> DF. Last time I have looked, it was in state of FreeBSD4. Now I can see some
>> netgraph7 directory in DF CVS, but I have no idea about it's status.
>>
>> mpd4.4.1 is the latest mpd version supporting FreeBSD4 in it's netgraph
>> state. Now it is legacy and I have no wish to continue development of that
>> branch. Present mpd5.2 version is completely superior and this is that front
>> line to which you should orient yourself. Mpd5 is widely tunes itself to the
>> system capabilities to support all FreeBSD versions starting from 5.x. To
>> clean the code some of critical FreeBSD 4.x tunings (for example, NG_NODESIZ
>> of 16 bytes support) were removed. But even without this, it still would be
>> practically inoperable now due to many other problems in that old netgraph
>> code, which are now fixed in new versions.
>
> Ok, that's fair. I will look at mpd5/netgraph on DFLY some night.
> Hope, I would be able to do something.
>
>>
>>> What can I provide:
>>> 1. Access to DFBSD system (home server, semi-production :) ) and
>>> FreeBSD mpd server (router at work, serious production)
>>> 2. Testing, some C coding (well, I'm short of DFBSD kernel experience,
>>> but should not be a big problem to grep sources)
>>> 3. Beer/Juice/Vodka/Borjomi (in Kiev, via the train, airmail, etc). :)
>>
>> Sorry, but with my work for FreeBSD I have no spare time to actively
>> maintain one more system. If somebody going to finish DF netgraph update to
>> the recent FreeBSD state, started by Matthew Dillon, and will maintain it
>> further, I will help him with mpd support and my netgraph knowledge.
>
> That's all ok. But probably I would need your advises and clues. Let's
> see if I would be able to work on it (the time limits mostly).
>
> --
> Dennis Melentyev
>