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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Daryl Chance <dchance@valuedata.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS
Message-ID:  <200008232109.OAA86366@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008231855.MAA51586@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Aug 23, 2000 12:55:48 pm"

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Warner Losh writes:
> : not marked.  I noticed that 4.1 Release miibus is still not
> : marked as (required), is it no longer required, or is it still
> : not marked?  I ahven't tried compiling it with miibus commented
> : out, I'm just assuming it's still required
> 
> miibus is still required for any ethernet card with a mii.  Which  is
> basically all of them produced in the last few years.  my trusty
> ne2000 doesn't need it :-)

Would you ever want "miibus" even if you're NOT using any of
the cards that require it?

I guess you might need it to be able to KLD load one of those
drivers.. ? But that's no argument becuse you could just have
a miibus.ko that was a dependency of those drivers.

So why is it a separate option?

-Archie

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