svn commit: r199167 - stable/8
Andrew Thompson
thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 11 02:07:01 UTC 2009
Author: thompsa
Date: Wed Nov 11 02:07:01 2009
New Revision: 199167
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199167
Log:
MFC r198859
Belatedly add an UPDATING message for the usb ethernet ifnet naming in r188412.
Modified:
stable/8/UPDATING (contents, props changed)
Modified: stable/8/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/UPDATING Wed Nov 11 01:33:06 2009 (r199166)
+++ stable/8/UPDATING Wed Nov 11 02:07:01 2009 (r199167)
@@ -471,6 +471,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
libusb-0.1.so.8 libusb20.so.1
+20090209:
+ All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
+ (eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
+ change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
+
20090203:
The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
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