From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 29 11:58:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19EE337B9DA for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA71068; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:57:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200006291857.LAA71068@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: bug: "device ether" no longer optional In-Reply-To: <20000629092916.A28636@nagual.pp.ru> from "Andrey A. Chernov" at "Jun 29, 2000 09:29:16 am" To: ache@nagual.pp.ru (Andrey A. Chernov) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrey A. Chernov writes: > Without "device ether" in config file kernel fails to compile and > complains on undefined function ether_ifdetach() in if.c:if_detach() > > Please fix. I'm working on it. Of course, in order to check in the fix, I first need to build a new kernel and test it. But once running the new kernel, I can't check in the fix thanks to the broken ssh. So now I'm now building another kernel with RANDOMDEV, even though that this is the solution was not at all obvious from reading UPDATING. Luckily I happened to have seen -current in the past couple of days. Trying to search -current on the web site for the appropriate keywords yeilded only articles from the years 1997 through 1999, nothing in 2000, and there is no way to sort by date anyway. I'm not trying to emit blame or anything, just pointing out that anything that makes it harder for developers to build & test new kernels and/or ssh changes and fixes into freefall can lead to exponentially increasing problems and/or delays. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message