missing firewire part in defaults/loader.conf

[Sean Bruno]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 04:33 -0700, pluknet wrote:
> 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.
> 

thanks.  I'll take it and ask about.

sean