Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:43:37 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: brooks@freebsd.org, amdmi3@amdmi3.ru, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, des@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r190031 - head/etc/defaults Message-ID: <20090410184337.GA6661@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20090410.123404.-1398308997.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200903191248.n2JCm0Rd061331@svn.freebsd.org> <20090409131253.GB7795@hades.panopticon> <20090409153805.GB83847@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20090410.123404.-1398308997.imp@bsdimp.com>
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--fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:34:04PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20090409153805.GB83847@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> > Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : Unless you have one of the few interfaces that does not generate > : link status events, dhclient will be started by devd. The only ones I > : know of are a subset set of ed(4) devices, though I think imp may have > : fixed those recently with a stub ifmedia interface. >=20 > I think ep(4) is the only "common" case left. For ed(4) we now do the > right thing for the really old cards (those without a MII) as well as > the merely old cards (those with a phy). For the really old cards, we > generally default to "Link is up all the time" as our status, > specifically to keep dhclient happy. >=20 > Of course, the number of users of these cards is quite low these > days... I've fixed a number of bugs that should have been bad enough > for people to complain, but since nobody did, I'm guessing the install > base is smaller than I'd thought... Good to know. This will be pretty useful since some emulators seem to emulate very old ed devices. -- Brooks --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJ35NYXY6L6fI4GtQRAhLTAKC7Pf2t753s+XtNgqIkw7nApxA53wCfU3YR vWZHkawkPbwPkPuDJ4/3W3U= =oyk0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7--
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