Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Daryl Chance <dchance@valuedata.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS Message-ID: <200008232109.OAA86366@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200008231855.MAA51586@harmony.village.org> "from Warner Losh at Aug 23, 2000 12:55:48 pm"
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Warner Losh writes: > : not marked. I noticed that 4.1 Release miibus is still not > : marked as (required), is it no longer required, or is it still > : not marked? I ahven't tried compiling it with miibus commented > : out, I'm just assuming it's still required > > miibus is still required for any ethernet card with a mii. Which is > basically all of them produced in the last few years. my trusty > ne2000 doesn't need it :-) Would you ever want "miibus" even if you're NOT using any of the cards that require it? I guess you might need it to be able to KLD load one of those drivers.. ? But that's no argument becuse you could just have a miibus.ko that was a dependency of those drivers. So why is it a separate option? -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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