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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:55:00 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_flags usage etc.
Message-ID:  <20060127005500.A38764@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060127.003927.08393947.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:39:27AM -0700
References:  <20060124075437.B67285@xorpc.icir.org> <20060126.210322.56187611.imp@bsdimp.com> <20060126225244.B37507@xorpc.icir.org> <20060127.003927.08393947.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:39:27AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
...
> Actually, the ifmedia approach has a cleaner way of dealing.  mii uses
> ifmedia.  ifmedia reports all the possible media types to ifconfig,
> and then reports its status.  mii has a nearly identical way of
> doing this for devices with mii busses, or pseudo mii busses.
> 
> ed should likely be fully converted to using ifmedia, but I'm not sure
> I want to risk breaking ISA cards that I don't have access to to make
> it so.  I just don't have the time...

to tell the truth, -current is so heavyweight for obsolete
hardware that i wonder what is the point of trying to support
old hardware that nobody has anymore, or on which nobody
would upgrade the OS from 4.x to 7.x

Not that i have plans to revise the 'ed' driver' but if
someone has such plans, this shouldn't be a concern
that stops us.

	cheers
	luigi



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