Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:21:54 -0800 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, Roger Pau =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r311849 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm64/conf sys/conf sys/dev/e1000 sys/i386/conf sys/mips/conf sys/modules sys/modules/em sys/modules/igb sys/powerpc/conf Message-ID: <2098064.nampQkWPZt@ralph.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <CAPFoGT9qDs%2Bu5erPNc-v825X7y%2B5icG0SNZj0OSrhoLy8ReJ9Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <201701100323.v0A3NMAI045868@repo.freebsd.org> <CAFMmRNyLuKZbMK3fVm=1G7Ky2KQsFOP4BNqkEhyRodxFZbBPpA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPFoGT9qDs%2Bu5erPNc-v825X7y%2B5icG0SNZj0OSrhoLy8ReJ9Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday, March 10, 2017 11:12:45 AM Navdeep Parhar wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote: > > There's also the issue that running "ifconfig igb0 blah" during startup will > > cause if_igb to be automatically loaded by ifconfig. > > > > I guess we could add a dummy if_igb.ko that just has a dependency on > > if_em.ko > > I do similar stuff in cxgbe (if_cxl.ko and if_cc.ko exist solely to > drag in if_cxgbe.ko as a dependency). In hindsight I wish I'd just > added a list of ifnet names -> kld map to ifconfig instead. It would > have been an ugly hack but much simpler. For now I think having an if_igb.c that is like if_cc.c and if_cxl.c is probably the simplest way to go. -- John Baldwin
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