From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 21 20:15:30 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62CFA15094; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:15:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA861CA7; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:15:19 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:06:50 +0900." <37E847CA.184980A0@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:15:19 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Message-Id: <19990922031519.1BA861CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > msmith 1999/09/20 00:58:08 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c > > Log: > ... > > > > With the renaming of the PCI ethernet driver modules and the addition > > of appropriate miibus dependancies on those modules that need it, it is > > now no longer necessary to compile many ethernet drivers into the kernel; > > they will be loaded on demand the first time they are ifconfig'ed. > > The network card drivers can now be removed from > defaults/loader.conf, right? Mmmm... on a second thought, security > level 2+ would prevent them from being loaded, right? Then there > might be a case for preloading them, though this might be done at > rc.local. Also note that you'll have to explicitly list them in network_interfaces in order to force them to be loaded as the default scan won't configure them if they aren't already there... Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message