I guess it's a good time to clean things up. The if_link_state code has been around for quite some time, either it be fully utilized or not be there at all. The inconsistency is the root cause.
I will try going through these tonight and hopefully the fix all take a common approach. -- Qing On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Juli Mallett <jmall...@freebsd.org> 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. > > Juli. > _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
