From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 21 21: 0:11 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1583315814; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:59:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10034; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909220352.UAA10034@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Mike Smith , 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:52:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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. No, Bill broke it again. Give me a couple of days to see if I can make it work right. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message