aue0 detected as ue0 on 8.0-RC2

[Rui Paulo]

On 3 Nov 2009, at 11:03, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 11:10:47 Gavin Atkinson wrote:
>> [freebsd-current cc'd, as that was where the thread started, but this
>> probably belongs on -usb, replies should go there]
>>
>> On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:59 +0100, Rick van der Zwet wrote:
>>> The first net interface of a aue(4) define used to be called aue0
>>> afaik. But is now called ue0 (declared in usb/net/usb_ethernet.c).  
>>> (no
>>> sign of ue(4) btw).
>>>
>>> I was looking in the UPDATING, man, mailinglists freebsd-usb@ and
>>> freebsd-current at . But I could not find the reason why the naming
>>> convention on this aue differs from the regular stuff, anybody?
>>>
>>> /Rick
>>>
>>> quick# dmesg | tail -8
>>> ugen1.3: <ADMtek> at usbus1
>>> aue0: <ADMtek USB To LAN Converter, rev 2.00/1.01, addr 3> on usbus1
>>> miibus1: <MII bus> on aue0
>>> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 1 on miibus1
>>> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>>> ue0: <USB Ethernet> on aue0
>>> ue0: Ethernet address: 00:00:e8:00:11:36
>>> ue0: link state changed to DOWN
>>>
>>> quick# ifconfig -l
>>> bfe0 lo0 ue0
>>
>> Hmm, this looks like a serious bug, possibly in the new USB subsystem
>> (HPS CC'd).
>>
>> I've got an axe(4) device, which also does the same:
>>
>> ugen7.3: <vendor 0x0b95> at usbus7
>> axe0: <vendor 0x0b95 product 0x7720, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3> on usbus7
>> axe0: PHYADDR 0xe0:0x10
>> miibus1: <MII bus> on axe0
>> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 16 on miibus1
>> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>> ue0: <USB Ethernet> on axe0
>> ue0: Ethernet address: 00:50:b6:05:57:a7
>> ue0: link state changed to DOWN
>
> Hi,
>
> All USB ethernet adapters are now named ue0. You will get one axe0  
> event and
> one ue0 event. So there should be no problems regarding devd.conf  .

Fair enough, but this must be mentioned in src/UPDATING.

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Rui Paulo