On 2002-12-17 18:22, Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> wrote:
> In article <20021217140848.GB16141@labs.gr>,
> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >IIRC, this was done because nobody was willing to support it anymore.
> >I'm sure that you can work and generate patches using the older
> >version of the source that included the OSI stack though.  One of the
> >great advantages of all BSDs is that you're free to copy any version
> >of the source tree as a base and start work based on that.  You are
> >not obliged to work with freebsd-current or netbsd-current.  I'm also
> >almost 100% sure that given a relatively stable code base upon which
> >OSI support can be worked on and relatively good support for it, the
> >relevant parts could be revived in the FreeBSD tree too :-)
>
> Yes, while this is true, we are trying not to break the code and keep
> it synced with all the API changes in the networking stack. This might
> not be feasible in the future when the mbuf layer gets re-written. So
> reviving the code and making it work under /current might require
> significant changes.

Very true!  The fact that something is possible doesn'tnecessarily
imply that it's easy too :)

Thanks for adding something that I completely forgot to mention while
posting in haste over a slow ssh link earlier.