[openbeosnetteam] Re: porting FreeBSD's new netstack
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:09:39 +0200 CEST
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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