Re: SVN r353868 breaks net/intel-em-kmod

From: Franco Fichtner <franco_at_lastsummer.de> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 20:02:08 +0200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:41:22 UTC

> On 24. Oct 2019, at 7:56 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:12:10AM -0400, Michael Butler wrote:
> M> The removal of these KPIs yields:
> M> 
> M> link_elf_obj: symbol if_multiaddr_array undefined
> M> linker_load_file: /boot/modules/if_em_updated.ko - unsupported file type
> 
> What's the reason to keep these outside of the tree drivers?

Unmodified and newer drivers for older FreeBSD versions.

In particular, 11.x had unfortunate and latent regressions
regarding link negotiation (chipset subset) and netmap support.

Cheers,
Franco