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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