Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:16:11 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> Subject: Re: kern/102035: [plip] plip networking disables parallel port printing Message-ID: <20060903171610.GB45627@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <44FA6616.8080806@FreeBSD.org> References: <200609030220.k832KQji011085@freefall.freebsd.org> <44FA6616.8080806@FreeBSD.org>
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--RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:20:22PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Your approach is interesting, but I'm not sure I like the idea of adding a > new semantic to the defaults file. >=20 > Would you consider instead modifying network6_interface_setup in > network.subr to not automatically configure a plip interface if > ipv6_ifconfig_plipN is unset or null? That would accomplish the same thin= g, > but it would be behind the scenes. That's a fairly significant change since there's no requirement to explicit= ly set an address for an IPv6 interface and this would suddenly require it. It may be that the right thing to do with IPv6 interfaces is to require that ipv6_ifconfig_ifn be set to something but that would be a change. In many ways I think the best thing to do is remove plip from GENERIC and be done with it. -- Brooks --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE+w3aXY6L6fI4GtQRAgGjAKCYZSf77LUkUobgql1c/w7CmbBnNACghDv4 ZJ1Qm5wck6jAYO/brE3CWEY= =63KJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RASg3xLB4tUQ4RcS--
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