[uClinux-dev] Upgrading to newer bridge-utils

[glhs329 at gmail.com]

The bridge-utils package is pretty old (0.9.6), so I looked into what
it would take to upgrade (the latest is 1.2, see
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26089). I
encountered a problem building 1.2 (and posted a query to the bridge
mail list), but had no problem porting bridge-utils-1.1 into the
uClinux environment. The only "patch" to submit is the makefile that
deals with running configure and the romfs target.

I also downloaded the original 0.9.6, and discovered the uClinux-dist
package contains several changes that I can't sort out. I suspect some
changes are fix bugs, but other changes add or modify the original
package's behavior ("brctl show ANY").

So what's the procedure for moving forward? Does this group know the
history behind the uClinux changes, and whether current projects still
rely on them? How do we trade off retaining old "enhancements" without
becoming tied to old versions? I noticed uClinux-dist-test includes a
new (2.4) pppd, and kept the old by providing pppd-2.3. Would a
similar approach work for bridge-utils?