From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 18:42:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA01A16A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:42:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F66243D64 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:42:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.17.229]) ([10.251.17.229]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 27 Jan 2006 10:42:38 -0800 Message-ID: <43DA699E.8030803@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:42:38 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo References: <20060124075437.B67285@xorpc.icir.org> <20060126.210322.56187611.imp@bsdimp.com> <20060126225244.B37507@xorpc.icir.org> <20060127.003927.08393947.imp@bsdimp.com> <20060127005500.A38764@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20060127005500.A38764@xorpc.icir.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: if_flags usage etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:42:41 -0000 Luigi Rizzo wrote: >On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:39:27AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: >... > > >>Actually, the ifmedia approach has a cleaner way of dealing. mii uses >>ifmedia. ifmedia reports all the possible media types to ifconfig, >>and then reports its status. mii has a nearly identical way of >>doing this for devices with mii busses, or pseudo mii busses. >> >>ed should likely be fully converted to using ifmedia, but I'm not sure >>I want to risk breaking ISA cards that I don't have access to to make >>it so. I just don't have the time... >> >> > >to tell the truth, -current is so heavyweight for obsolete >hardware that i wonder what is the point of trying to support >old hardware that nobody has anymore, or on which nobody >would upgrade the OS from 4.x to 7.x > > ehem.. I have several ed pc-cards on -current machines.. That particular design may be old but it's really cheap and still used a LOT in cheap/small stuff. especially since it is usable at 100Mb transparently with some cards. >Not that i have plans to revise the 'ed' driver' but if >someone has such plans, this shouldn't be a concern >that stops us. > > cheers > luigi >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >