svn commit: r190031 - head/etc/defaults

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20090410184337.GA6661 at lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
            Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> writes:
: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:34:04PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20090409153805.GB83847 at lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
: >             Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > : Unless you have one of the few interfaces that does not generate
: > : link status events, dhclient will be started by devd.  The only ones I
: > : know of are a subset set of ed(4) devices, though I think imp may have
: > : fixed those recently with a stub ifmedia interface.
: > 
: > I think ep(4) is the only "common" case left.  For ed(4) we now do the
: > right thing for the really old cards (those without a MII) as well as
: > the merely old cards (those with a phy).  For the really old cards, we
: > generally default to "Link is up all the time" as our status,
: > specifically to keep dhclient happy.
: > 
: > Of course, the number of users of these cards is quite low these
: > days...  I've fixed a number of bugs that should have been bad enough
: > for people to complain, but since nobody did, I'm guessing the install
: > base is smaller than I'd thought...
: 
: Good to know.  This will be pretty useful since some emulators seem to
: emulate very old ed devices.

That's true.  Although performance on the ed(4) devices are rather
pathetic by today's standards, at least it would work.  Good thing
most of the emulators don't try to be cycle accurate.

Warner