Carp on vlan with em driver

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:37:32PM -0500, Christopher McGee wrote:
> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
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> >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:59:08AM -0500, Christopher McGee wrote:
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> >>Yar Tikhiy wrote:
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> >>>On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:03:45PM -0500, Christopher McGee wrote:
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> >>>>Carp, vlans, and em is still not supported in 5.4 release, but I have 
> >>>>read about a patch that works.  Can anyone point me in the right 
> >>>>direction.
> >>>> 
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> >>>>       
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> >>>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=25292+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-net/20050424.freebsd-net+raw
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> >>>     
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> >>I have run this patch and when it asks for the file to be patched, I 
> >>specify /usr/src/sys/dev/em/if_em.c and I get the following output:
> >>
> >>File to patch: sys/dev/em/if_em.c
> >>Patching file sys/dev/em/if_em.c using Plan A...
> >>patch: **** malformed patch at line 23: @@ -1681,6 +1687,13 @@
> >>
> >>Am I doing something wrong?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >The patch in the posting seems just broken by some mail software
> >or whatever.  Here's the diff from my local CVS I used to use in
> >RELENG_5 almost a year ago.  I have no idea if it will work for you.
> >Be prepared to apply it by hand, should it fail to apply via patch.
> >It's rather small though.
> >
> > 
> >
> Is this something that will be applied to 5.x - RELEASE at some point?

5.5 will be the last RELEASE on the 5.x line, so it's the last
chance now.  Alas, I don't feel myself competent enough just to
apply this to RELENG_5 instantly because I haven't really followed
the development of RELENG_5 for quite a while.  Let's ask Gleb
Smirnoff if he believes it is OK to make the change in question.
Adding him to Cc:.  Gleb, thanks in advance for your valuable
opinion! :-)

As for my dealing with this issue, I just upgraded my 5.x systems
to 6-STABLE at last. It was completely painless because 5.x and 6.x
didn't differ radically in the system-to-admin interface, such as
configuration files etc.

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Yar