On 03/10/17 13:21, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, March 10, 2017 11:12:45 AM Navdeep Parhar wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Ryan Stone <ryst...@gmail.com> 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.
> 

Gotcha. Will do.

sean

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