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Subject: Re: svn commit: r311849 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm64/conf
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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