svn commit: r215132 - head/sys/dev/nfe

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 19:49:36 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:34:09PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote:
> On 11-11-2010 18:08, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > Author: yongari
> > Date: Thu Nov 11 18:08:50 2010
> > New Revision: 215132
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/215132
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add basic WOL support for MCP ethernet controllers. It seems the
> >   controller does not perform automatic switching from 1000Mbps link
> >   to 10/100Mbps link when WOL is activated. Implement establishing
> >   10/100Mps link with auto-negotiation in driver. Link status change
> >   handler was modified to remove taskqueue based approach since driver
> >   now needs synchronous handling for link establishment.
> 
> Somewhat unrelated but this commit reminds me of something: why do we still
> keep the nve driver?  I thought nfe was written as a replacement years ago?
> 

Perhaps to address edge cases not covered by nfe(4)?
Personally I don't know any of them.


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