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From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
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Subject: Re: Extending sys/dev/mii
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Am 25.01.2012 um 23:17 schrieb Marius Strobl:

> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:08:34AM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>> - miibus has a funny way of attaching to it's parent.  Making the =
parent a bus that automatically attaches matching children does not lead =
to good results.
>=20
> That's the idea behind auto-probing, which all FreeBSD bus drivers
> implement as far as the physical bus supports it.

Sorry, I should have been more specific.  I had problems when the device =
that miibus attaches to implements autoprobing and auto-attaches miibus =
directly, instead of through mii_attach().


Stefan

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