Luigi Rizzo wrote: >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 > > ehem.. I have several ed pc-cards on -current machines.. That particular design may be old but it's really cheap and still used a LOT in cheap/small stuff. especially since it is usable at 100Mb transparently with some cards. >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. > > cheers > luigi >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > >Received on Fri Jan 27 2006 - 17:42:40 UTC
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