On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:15:21PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: J> Juli Mallett wrote: J> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 15:39, Qing Li <qin...@freebsd.org> wrote: J> >> I guess it's a good time to clean things up. The if_link_state code has been J> >> around for quite some time, either it be fully utilized or not be there at all. J> >> The inconsistency is the root cause. J> > J> > Sure. There is an increasing amount of stuff that network drivers are J> > expected to do, but they work without doing them. It's easy to think J> > you have a functioning network driver and that you can get by without J> > adding support for media changes and link status reporting, etc. J> > J> >> I will try going through these tonight and hopefully the fix all take a J> >> common approach. J> J> probably should add a flag that means "we have media state" J> and if it is not set, assume it is always on.
We've got LINK_STATE_UNKNOWN, we can just initialize if_link_state to this value in ether_ifattach(). And Qing should treat this value as LINK_STATE_UP in routing decision until better times. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. _______________________________________________ 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"
