Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:10:01 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Qing Li <qingli@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r205024 - head/sys/net Message-ID: <20100312041001.GA85817@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <eaa228be1003111535s12febe62x91124b0a015fd0ff@mail.gmail.com> References: <201003111756.o2BHukJu042449@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003112128020.97017@fledge.watson.org> <9ace436c1003111530s3bd0de9cq451671909fb6aa64@mail.gmail.com> <eaa228be1003111535s12febe62x91124b0a015fd0ff@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:35:13PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 15:30, Qing Li <qingli@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >> A couple of questions: > >> > >> (1) It used to be the case that quite a few interface drivers and types > >> didn't have a notion of "link up" -- especially older ethernet devices. ?Do > >> those all have the same problem? ?It was probably a design oversight that > >>?devices don't declare an explicit capability for "can report link state". > >> > > > > ?What you raised is definitely a possibility and these fixes take the > > ?similar approach. I am going to try and go through each of these > > ?drivers in /sys/dev/ and converting them, very soon. > > Go through drivers in the embedded port directories, too. The Octeon > port's Ethernet driver was broken by this, and it looks like the > Atheros if_arge is probably broken, too. I would even suggest going > back to the old behavior briefly while the port maintainers are given > an opportunity to update their drivers. Actually, it looks like only > MIPS has Ethernet drivers outside of dev/ at a quick glance, but I'd > be surprised if there weren't other broken examples. There is also if_npe in the arm/xscale/ixp425 directory and probably others in the rest of the arm directories. John -- John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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