On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:09 PM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 05:44:12 PM Eric Joyner wrote: >> Author: erj >> Date: Wed May 27 17:44:11 2015 >> New Revision: 283620 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/283620 >> >> Log: >> MFC ixgbe commits for 10.2: >> >> - r280182 - Split the driver into independent pf/vf loadables >> - r280197 - Resolve build issues >> - r280204 - Fix multiple same-name devclasses >> - r280228 - Fix i386 LINT build issues / remove unused variable >> - r280252 - Fix building ixgbe with gcc >> - r280962 - Make changes to busdma code similar to r257541 >> - r281772 & r281773 - Remove unused variable >> - partial r282280 - stats counter update (ix-only) >> - r282289 - Add X550 support >> - r282290 - Add X550 makefile updates >> - r282293 - Add ixgbe_x550.c to conf/files >> - r282299 - Fix gcc compile (extraneous extern declaration) >> >> Finally, add ix_txrx.c to conf/files because it's required for compile in >> stable/10. >> >> Approved by: jfv (mentor) > > It would be better to not break existing kernel configs for 10. You could > hack the lines in sys/conf/files to allow either 'device ix' or 'device ixgbe' > to work by using 'optional ixgbe ix', etc. You wouldn't need to document it > in NOTES and you could leave your existing changes in GENERIC, but this would > avoid surprises for folks who were using custom kernel configs. > > Similarly, you probably want to allow 'kldload ixgbe' or 'ixgbe_load="YES"' > in loader.conf to still work. You can try just installing an 'ixgbe.ko' > symlink via the module's Makefile, though I'm not sure that will work > correctly for the loader.conf case. If it doesn't, then the other route is > to create a stub ixgbe.c file that MODULE_DEPEND()'s on the ix and ixv driver > modules so that it autoloads if_ix.ko and if_ixv.ko as dependencies when it > is loaded.
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