cvsupdate only bge driver

[Mike Tancsa]

5.1R is not really meant for production.  You should have stuck with 
RELENG_4.  You could trying checking out all the source related to this 
driver via cvs, but I know especially in 5.x there have been a LOT of changes.

         ---Mike

At 02:59 PM 15/10/2003, akanwar at digitarchy.com wrote:
>I understand  what you are saying Mike,
>
>
>But here is the issue:
>
>I built a 5.1-RELEASE box and cvsuped it to -p10. After reboot I am getting
>a flood of "bge0 : gigabit link up" messages. I am on version 1.41 of the
>driver ... the latest cvs submission was 1.55. A newsgroup posting
>suggested that I need the latest code to make this issue go away.
>
>I do not want to go to -CURRENT because this will be a production box.
>
>So what am I supposed to do ?
>
>Help appreciated :),
>-ansh
>
>
>
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:26:15 -0400
>To: akanwar at digitarchy.com, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: cvsupdate only bge driver
>
>
>
>Unless you really know what you are doing (in that case you would not need
>to ask this question) it is HIGHLY recommended NOT to do this.  The bge
>driver in its latest form could depend on other parts of the kernel that
>would also need to be updated.  You really should cvsup everything, not
>parts.
>
>          ---Mike
>
>At 01:19 PM 15/10/2003, akanwar at digitarchy.com wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I want to update only the bge driver to its latest source via cvsup and
> >then compile it into the kernel.
> >
> >
> >Can someone guide me about what steps I need to take ?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >-ansh
> >
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