Modular ata chipsets data
Andriy Gapon
avg at icyb.net.ua
Thu Oct 9 12:09:12 UTC 2008
on 09/10/2008 00:43 John Baldwin said the following:
> What happens with mii is that you have a choice, you can either use 'device
> miibus' in which case you get all of the various drivers and the
> infrastructure, or you can use 'device mii', 'device rlphy', etc. if you wish
> to take a more fine-grained approach. Similarly, there is a miibus.ko that
> just depends on all the sub-drivers so you can still do 'kldload miibus.ko'
> to load all of them. I think this is probably a fine model as it will still
> load everything by default, but people who care about the space savings can
> trim things down as desired.
Sorry for hijacking the thread but is this documented anywhere?
On RELENG_7 system I couldn't find the above info in NOTES and
miibus(4), only device miibus is referred to.
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Andriy Gapon
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