Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 13:28:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: dennis@etinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ether_ifattach() issue Message-ID: <200008062028.NAA04330@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <20000806220611.A89046@mithrandr.moria.org> from Neil Blakey-Milner at "Aug 6, 2000 10:06:12 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Neil Blakey-Milner writes: > > No interface should be attached twice, Ethernet or other, right? > > So try this patch and find out which driver is broken. > > I think the concern was because the semantics to attach devices changed, > meaning that drivers from before no longer work. Hmm.. my understanding was that it was never OK to attach the same interface twice (without detaching in between). So if this behavior worked before then it was just "luck". In any case, IMHO in the future it doesn't make sense to allow an interface to attach twice... what would that mean anyway? Admittedly there may be a backward compatibility problem, but it seems like the origin of the problem is in the driver, not the ether_attach() routine. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200008062028.NAA04330>