Re: [Netnice-library] Re: [Netnice-developer] libnetnice tasks

[Takashi O. <ta...@wi...>]

hi, matt.

thanks for the post. if you can be responsible for L1 development,
that will be great. also, you may take as much tasks as you want,
including Lib1, of course :-)

but, since NPF porting is the most tough part in the diagram, i
suggest you to start from easier tasks, raising the hurdles step
by step. so, if you have any spare time, can you just upgrade
the 2.6.7 netnice, to 2.6.12?? this will be quite instructive
for you, as a starting point.

if that is okay, please take a look at freebsd/sys/NOTE file,
in the alpha package. you will find commit instructions, which
tells you how to add an upgraded version to the CVS repository.
Particularly, please follow the instructions given in the following
sections. use r2612, as the branch for the clean 2.6.12, and
netnice2612 for your new version.

	- How to import a newer version of the OS
	- To add a branch to the repository
	- Too apply the patch of the old version, to the new one

if you cannot understand these instructions, please just leave
them untouched. once we had a new developer, who were new to CVS,
jeopardized entire repository with careless import operation, and
i really do not want that to happen again.

if the task is too easy for you, that will be nice. really nice.
so, please just show me by actually finishing it, and, please try
to fix the bug, i described in L1 task description, next. For
more detailed description, please try to get commit log for
FreeBSD, on July 23, 2005. the bug tries to drain packets from
a deleted leaf VIF. you may not understand what it means now, but,
you will, once you finish the upgrading part. and, the commit
logs contain many hints about how to fix the bug, though it is
made for other BSD OSes.

i believe these tasks will provide fairly instructive
opportunity for you, to get used to the Linux/netnice code.
any questions and suggestions are welcome.

thanks!!!


-- taka

Matt Davis wrote:
> I would be up for L1, mostly for the NPF port.  I wanna generate some
> code, especially some kernal hacking goodies.  Although Lib1 is
> definitely my second choice.  Mostly I would like to contribute some of
> my own code for the project.  But since Im the new guy to the project,
> ill let you all deem what task would be more 'useful' for my learning
> the netnice system.
> 
> -Matt