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.) > > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | > | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
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