Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:39:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r216596 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201012201739.oBKHddwY071220@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: yongari Date: Mon Dec 20 17:39:39 2010 New Revision: 216596 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/216596 Log: Document limitation of station address reprogramming. Modified: head/share/man/man4/jme.4 Modified: head/share/man/man4/jme.4 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/jme.4 Mon Dec 20 17:28:15 2010 (r216595) +++ head/share/man/man4/jme.4 Mon Dec 20 17:39:39 2010 (r216596) @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 18, 2010 +.Dd December 20, 2010 .Dt JME 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -166,3 +166,15 @@ driver was written by .Aq yongari@FreeBSD.org . It first appeared in .Fx 7.1 . +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Nm +driver tries to avoid unnecessary station address reprogramming for +controllers that use eFuse to store station address. +The number of times that eFuse can be safely reprogrammed is 16 at +most. +In addition, there is no way to restore factory default station +address once station address is reprogrammed via eFuse. +It is highly recommended not to reprogram station address and +it is responsibility of administrator to store original station +address into a safe place when station address should be changed.
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