Just so that its clear, this will be changed back to the original string shortly.
sean On 07/12/17 11:16, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Hi Eric, > For stable users, can the loader.conf variable not be the original one > ? Especially for servers that are physically remote, a sysadmin might > expect (wrongly or not) for the name not the change in a stable branch. > If the box is remote, they would not be able to see the new dmesg error. > Rather than change the name, perhaps a deprecation warning saying "In > FreeBSD 12, this will be hw.ix.allow_unsupported_sfp" ? > > ---Mike > > > On 7/12/2017 12:35 PM, Eric Joyner wrote: >> Olivier, >> >> There is a message about it in dmesg, right? For the error code, there's >> not much we can do there aside from adding a new unsupported SFP+ code to >> errno.h, which doesn't seem appropriate. >> >> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:27 AM Olivier Cochard-Labbé <oliv...@freebsd.org> >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Eric Joyner <e...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I think it may have been silently renamed to "allow_unsupported_sfp" >>>> instead of "unsupported_sfp". Could you try changing the name of that >>>> tunable in your config? >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks Eric! >>> >>> Replacing this previous line into my /boot/loader.conf >>> hw.ix.unsupported_sfp="1" >>> by this new one: >>> hw.ix.allow_unsupported_sfp="1" >>> >>> >>> solved the problem: -) but this broke POLA :-( >>> >>> And the default behavior is not very sysadmin friendly: >>> How, with the message "device_attach: ix0 attach returned 5" and no more >>> ix interface detected, can I know it just came from using unsupported SFP ? >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> svn-src-stable...@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-stable-11 >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-stable-11-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> >> > >
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