missing firewire part in defaults/loader.conf

[pluknet]

On 24 May 2010 09:11, Sean Bruno <seanbru at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 21:12 -0700, pluknet wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> [background]
>> Today I noticed my motherboard has embedded firewire
>> (none@ pci entry in pciconf with subclass FireWire).
>> I decided to attach it on boot with loading a kernel module,
>> so I had had to add an appropriate string to loader.conf
>> Unfortunately I forgot the module name, so I looked in
>> /boot/defaults/loader.conf for an example without success.
>>
>> The following firewire modules are missing:
>> fwe, fwip, fwohci, sbp, and probably several others.
>>
>> So what do you think of adding these entries?
>> Does it make sense to add (all of) them there?
>> On the other hand, there are already such exotic entries
>> as bktr and svr4 emulation layer, so why don't.
>>
>> %%%
>> Index: sys/boot/forth/loader.conf
>> ===================================================================
>> --- sys/boot/forth/loader.conf  (revision 207204)
>> +++ sys/boot/forth/loader.conf  (working copy)
>> @@ -398,6 +398,16 @@
>>  snd_uaudio_load="NO"           # USB audio
>>
>>  ##############################################################
>> +###  FireWire modules  #######################################
>> +##############################################################
>> +
>> +firewire_load="NO"             # IEEE1394 High-performance Serial Bus
>> +fwe_load="NO"                  # Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
>> +fwip_load="NO"                 # IP over FireWire driver
>> +fwohci_load="NO"               # OHCI FireWire chipset device driver
>> (load with firewire)
>> +sbp_load="NO"                  # SBP-2 Mass Storage Devices driver
>> +
>> +##############################################################
>>  ###  Other modules  ##########################################
>>  ##############################################################
>>
>> %%%
>>
>
> That's probably appropriate.  I wonder why it hasn't been done before.
>
> sean
>
>

Since noone is interested yet, I submitted conf/147126.

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pluknet