From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 14: 9: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.whistle.com (gatekeeper.whistle.com [207.76.204.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBFE37B424 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by gatekeeper.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09954; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA86366; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200008232109.OAA86366@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS In-Reply-To: <200008231855.MAA51586@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Aug 23, 2000 12:55:48 pm" To: Warner Losh Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Daryl Chance , FreeBSD Hackers X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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