On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:21 PM, John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, March 10, 2017 11:12:45 AM Navdeep Parhar wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Ryan Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > There's also the issue that running "ifconfig igb0 blah" during startup 
>> > will
>> > cause if_igb to be automatically loaded by ifconfig.
>> >
>> > I guess we could add a dummy if_igb.ko that just has a dependency on
>> > if_em.ko
>>
>> I do similar stuff in cxgbe (if_cxl.ko and if_cc.ko exist solely to
>> drag in if_cxgbe.ko as a dependency).  In hindsight I wish I'd just
>> added a list of ifnet names -> kld map to ifconfig instead.  It would
>> have been an ugly hack but much simpler.
>
> For now I think having an if_igb.c that is like if_cc.c and if_cxl.c
> is probably the simplest way to go.

It's certainly the easiest way forward. + if_igb.ko module, right?

Warner
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