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Date:      Wed, 06 May 1998 12:08:19 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ethernet 
Message-ID:  <199805061908.MAA07625@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Wed, 6 May 1998 12:07:28 -0600 (MDT) 
 "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> wrote:

 > I'm still waiting to see NetBSD cleanly deal with LKMs in it's
 > autoconfiguration code.  Config.new is not the answer to all
 > configuration problems, although I will admit that it is much
 > better than FreeBSD's current config nightmare.

Dealing with LKMs really only requires defining a way of specifying
the locator arguments.  Then, the autoconfiguration code locates the
parent node, and attempts to match/probe the device given the new
driver/locators.

The reason THAT hasn't been done is because the LKM interface sucks
rocks (and it's basically the same as FreeBSD's), but that's been known
for a while.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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