[Ns-developers] About real-world application integration

[Hajime Tazaki]

Hi Mathieu,

At Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:54:59 +0100,
Mathieu Lacage wrote:

>The bad news is that the ns-3-simu branch can't be merged in ns-3-dev
>as-is because it has many problems and because ns-3-dev has many
>problems so, your work can't be merged in ns-3-dev today. 

Not so bad.

>The good news is that we have plans to address all these issues:
>
>1) First, we need to complete the ipv4 API/implementation rework.
>2) Then, we need to merge the ipv6 work
>3) Then, we need to fix some fundamental issues in the ELF loader in
>ns-3-simu
>4) Then, we need to merge the netlink code
>5) Finally, we can merge the missing pieces to make quagga and zebra
>work.
>
>1) is current planned for the second half of march (i.e., starting next
>week). My hope is that tom and myself can complete a mergeable version
>just after we release 3.4 so that we can merge this in early may.
>
>2) would, ideally, be worked on after 1) is completed but I don't plan
>to work on it myself other than review code from sebastien.
>
>3) is something I have been working on since december in my spare time.
>It is basically a re-implementation of an ELF loader for i386 and x86-64
>linux. This should fix a number of very hard to track bugs in the
>current implementation which can be seen by very-hard-to-reproduce
>random segfaults.
>
>4) and 5) seem to be mostly what you have started doing.
>
>I glanced at your tree and it seems that you have started doing 4) and
>5) which is great because no one is working on it so, if you can keep
>improving the libc implementation located in src/process-manager, this
>will help us move fast once I have completed 3. So, my initial reaction
>is that what you are doing is great, I think that there is no real
>overlap with other people if you work only on the src/process-manager
>code, and I will do a more thorough review of your code sometime next
>week (I am supposed to be away from email this week :).

Okay, thanks.
First of all, I can review 1)'s work from the 4) 5)'s point
of view.

Most of this work has already done by him, Liu Jian.
I've just added some function into this.


regards,
hajime