In message: <20060127005500.A38764_at_xorpc.icir.org> Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_icir.org> writes: : On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:39:27AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: : ... : > Actually, the ifmedia approach has a cleaner way of dealing. mii uses : > ifmedia. ifmedia reports all the possible media types to ifconfig, : > and then reports its status. mii has a nearly identical way of : > doing this for devices with mii busses, or pseudo mii busses. : > : > ed should likely be fully converted to using ifmedia, but I'm not sure : > I want to risk breaking ISA cards that I don't have access to to make : > it so. I just don't have the time... : : to tell the truth, -current is so heavyweight for obsolete : hardware that i wonder what is the point of trying to support : old hardware that nobody has anymore, or on which nobody : would upgrade the OS from 4.x to 7.x : : Not that i have plans to revise the 'ed' driver' but if : someone has such plans, this shouldn't be a concern : that stops us. You would not believe the number of people that complain loudly when it does break. Most other cards I wouldn't worry about at all, but there are still a lot of machines with these old klunky cards... :-( I know that it surprised me... I've also checked if_ed, and it only sets ALTPHYS before it attaches the ifnet. I've also modified it a bit to use LINK2 to match the documentation... WarnerReceived on Fri Jan 27 2006 - 15:58:42 UTC
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