Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:18:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r218110 - stable/7/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201101302318.p0UNItfV089105@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: yongari Date: Sun Jan 30 23:18:55 2011 New Revision: 218110 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218110 Log: MFC r216596: Document limitation of station address reprogramming. Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/jme.4 Directory Properties: stable/7/share/man/man4/ (props changed) Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/jme.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/7/share/man/man4/jme.4 Sun Jan 30 23:18:25 2011 (r218109) +++ stable/7/share/man/man4/jme.4 Sun Jan 30 23:18:55 2011 (r218110) @@ -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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