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Date:      Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:32:54 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r220187 - head
Message-ID:  <201103310832.p2V8WsBD096769@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: adrian
Date: Thu Mar 31 08:32:53 2011
New Revision: 220187
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/220187

Log:
  Document the ath glue changes.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Thu Mar 31 08:14:51 2011	(r220186)
+++ head/UPDATING	Thu Mar 31 08:32:53 2011	(r220187)
@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.
 	machines to maximize performance.  (To disable malloc debugging, run
 	ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
 
+20110331:
+	ath(4) has been split into bus- and device- modules. if_ath contains
+	the HAL, the TX rate control and the network device code. if_ath_pci
+	contains the PCI bus glue. For Atheros MIPS embedded systems, if_ath_ahb
+	contains the AHB glue. Users need to load both if_ath_pci and if_ath
+	in order to use ath on everything else.
+
+	TO REPEAT: if_ath_ahb is not needed for normal users. Normal users only
+	need to load if_ath and if_ath_pci for ath(4) operation.
+
 20110218:
 	GNU binutils 2.17.50 (as of 2007-07-03) has been merged to -HEAD.  This
 	is the last available version under GPLv2.  It brings a number of new



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