On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:06:39PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > There are too many examples to name in every OS of drivers that have > tried in vain to support diverging hardware evolutionary paths. if_dc > and if_bge are great (or horrible, depending on your perspective) > examples of this in FreeBSD. My vote is to nip the madness in the bud > on if_em and have two (or more drivers) that support their hardware > families well instead of one driver that supports multiple families > marginally. For what it's worth, I agree with Scott. I'd rather see a new and separate driver (presumably igb(4)) than a "hacked up" em(4) driver trying to handle tons of IC revisions. A good example of the insanity the latter causes is nve(4) vs. nfe(4). :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |Received on Wed Oct 31 2007 - 07:17:00 UTC
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