[openbeosnetteam] Re: porting FreeBSD's new netstack

Waldemar Kornewald <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I can certainly see that there's a need for the NDIS wrapper but I 
> > dont
> > think it should be part of the core Haiku source.
> > It is something that the Haiku-based distros can add at their 
> > leasure.
> Okay, that is an acceptable solution.
> NDIS support will become a separate SourceForge project and we will 
> not 
> support it publicly (although, our devs maintain it ;). The tools for 
> converting a driver will be command-line and hard-to-use (on 
> purpose!!!). ;)
> The BeNDIS project will be the last chance for BeOS users to get 
> their 
> card working. Normal users will not want to mess with cmd-line apps 
> (until someone does not want to support the boycott and writes a nice 
> GUI).

If we port the new stack and it already contain an NDIS wrapper, I see 
no reason to remove it or separate it from our project. If you really 
want to make it optional, just have some #ifdefs or require some 
additional build arguments.

Bye,
   Axel.

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