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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:34:53 -0800
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r292460 - head/sys/powerpc/pseries
Message-ID:  <5678707D.3060905@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20151221212409.GB92531@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201512190216.tBJ2Gclo017183@repo.freebsd.org> <20151221212409.GB92531@FreeBSD.org>

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On 12/21/15 13:24, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>    Nathan,
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 02:16:38AM +0000, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> N> Author: nwhitehorn
> N> Date: Sat Dec 19 02:16:38 2015
> N> New Revision: 292460
> N> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/292460
> N>
> N> Log:
> N>   Provide link state reporting so that ifconfig_llan0="DHCP" works. The
> N>   reported link state is fictional (always up) since the hypervisor does
> N>   not provide this information.
> N>
> N>   MFC after:	1 week
>
> Does dhclient require working ifmedia, or only the link state? For the
> latter rolling over a fake ifmedia support isn't required.
>
It needed a reply to SIOCGIFMEDIA. I'm not sure which part of that was 
required, but a fake ifmedia made it easy.
-Nathan



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