On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:35:13PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 15:30, Qing Li <qin...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >> A couple of questions: > >> > >> (1) It used to be the case that quite a few interface drivers and types > >> didn't have a notion of "link up" -- especially older ethernet devices. ?Do > >> those all have the same problem? ?It was probably a design oversight that > >>?devices don't declare an explicit capability for "can report link state". > >> > > > > ?What you raised is definitely a possibility and these fixes take the > > ?similar approach. I am going to try and go through each of these > > ?drivers in /sys/dev/ and converting them, very soon. > > Go through drivers in the embedded port directories, too. The Octeon > port's Ethernet driver was broken by this, and it looks like the > Atheros if_arge is probably broken, too. I would even suggest going > back to the old behavior briefly while the port maintainers are given > an opportunity to update their drivers. Actually, it looks like only > MIPS has Ethernet drivers outside of dev/ at a quick glance, but I'd > be surprised if there weren't other broken examples.
There is also if_npe in the arm/xscale/ixp425 directory and probably others in the rest of the arm directories. John -- John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
