Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:33:19 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, holtor@yahoo.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recent fxp Driver Changes Message-ID: <20010516073318.A93130@chuggalug.clues.com> In-Reply-To: <200105152002.f4FK2J100674@mass.dis.org>; from Mike Smith on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:02:19PM -0700 References: <200105151924.f4FJO3A05849@prism.flugsvamp.com> <200105152002.f4FK2J100674@mass.dis.org>
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:02:19PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > >I'm a bit concerned over this. Our best driver has now > > >turned into one of the worst troublesome drivers like > > >the 3com xl0. > > > > I think that's stretching things a bit. > > Especially when you consider the the 'xl' driver is actually pretty damn > good. "I declare you know not of what you speak, young man." > It would be helpfull for the various upgrade paths to warn of changes that can mean an upgraded remote machine suddenly has no network connection. The worst case being the change name of NIC devices as that invalidates the rc.conf entries. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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