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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:46:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, csg@waterspout.com, ache@freebsd.org, wpaul@freebsd.org, imp@village.org
Subject:   Re: ether_ifattach()/ether_ifdetach() patch
Message-ID:  <200007112346.QAA41027@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <396BA6D8.15FB7483@elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Jul 11, 2000 03:59:36 pm"

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Julian Elischer writes:
> > To any interested parties, here is a patch to review.
> > 
> > This changes all ethernet drivers to only call ether_ifattach()
> > and ether_ifdetach(), consolidating some common actions, namely,
> > calls to if_attach(), bpfattach(), ng_ether_attach(), if_detach(),
> > bpfdetach(), and ng_ether_detach().
> > 
> > This also fixes the problem where detaching an ethernet interface
> > previously used for ng_ether(4) would panic (which resulted from
> > fixing the build to not require 'device ether' (which resulted
> > from making ng_ether(4) a loadable KLD)).
> > 
> >   ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/misc/ETHERATTACH.patch.1
> 
> The constant 1 (2nd argument to ether_attach) should be
> defined as something meaningful in the ethernet include file.
> e.g. USE_BPF vs NO_BPF

Thanks for the comment.. here's a revised version:

  ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/misc/ETHERATTACH.patch.2

-Archie

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