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Date:      Sun, 30 May 1999 10:05:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        Nicolai Petri <npp@distortion.dk>, tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Loadable Token Ring drivers!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905301003070.8581-100000@heathers.stdio.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905281455210.423-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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I vaugely remember something about not being able to plumb/un-plumb
network interfaces on the fly.  Has that changed?  Matt is right 
about the MAC layer code - I was remebering things wrong.

Larry


On Fri, 28 May 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Larry Lile wrote:
> > I don't think we can make the 802.5 layer loadable though.
> 
> I looked at the code a little and I'm not sure what would stop us from
> making the 802.5 stuff loadable.
> 
> In fact, all the various MAC layer code should be loadable.  The question
> is how to create a dependancy on the module from within the hardware
> drivers.  (So that the code is loaded if a driver is loaded and the code
> is not compiled in.)
> 
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