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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:21:35 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Subject:   Re: if_le unit number change?
Message-ID:  <20081230172135.GA19046@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <200812041438.27992.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <1d6d20bc0811260656t101ddb0eu35296ac973c6ba10@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0811270935570.52736@fledge.watson.org> <20081127195902.GA65404@alchemy.franken.de> <200812041438.27992.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:38:27PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> I tend to trim my /boot/device.hints to remove hints for devices that
> aren't in my machines.  However, with 8.0, if you leave the bogus hints
> around you won't be hurt and the device will stay as 'le1' so long as
> you don't remove the 'le0' hints, so if you never edit your
> /boot/device.hints it will just be called le1 forever.

I dare say 99% of folks don't touch /boot/device.hints - and given this
is somewhat of a regression for VMware using folks (and they cannot share
/etc/rc.conf any longer), what should we do?

1. Comment out the hint - figuring it isn't really needed in 8.0?
2. Hack things so that 'le' is treated as before with the trip thru
   acpi(4)?

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?
Let's not play "Jeopardy-style quoting"



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