[CFR 2/n] removes uther dependency of aue(4)

Andrew Thompson thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 31 21:50:09 UTC 2010


On 1 November 2010 10:47, Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following patch is to remove uether(4) dependency of aue(4) and
> change logs would be as follows:
>
>  - removes uether module dependency of aue(4) that finally uether
>    module would be gone.  The reasons why I'm trying to remove uether
>    module are that
>      I discussed with USB ethernet maintainers about whether it's
>      useful or not.  yongari@ answered that it's not helpful, not
>      straight forward to understand and make code complex.
>  - adds newly two uether APIs, uether_alloc_unr and uether_free_unr for
>    backward compatibility because current interface names for each
>    ethernet devices are linux-style `ue[0-9]+'.  The naming rule would
>    be kept at STABLE_8 but not sure at STABLE_9.
>
> If no objections I'd like to see this patch at HEAD.

No objections here.


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