svn commit: r205024 - head/sys/net

[Juli Mallett]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 15:30, Qing Li <qingli at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> A couple of questions:
>>
>> (1) It used to be the case that quite a few interface drivers and types
>> didn't have a notion of "link up" -- especially older ethernet devices.  Do
>> those all have the same problem?  It was probably a design oversight that
>> devices don't declare an explicit capability for "can report link state".
>>
>
>  What you raised is definitely a possibility and these fixes take the
>  similar approach. I am going to try and go through each of these
>  drivers in /sys/dev/ and converting them, very soon.

Go through drivers in the embedded port directories, too.  The Octeon
port's Ethernet driver was broken by this, and it looks like the
Atheros if_arge is probably broken, too.  I would even suggest going
back to the old behavior briefly while the port maintainers are given
an opportunity to update their drivers.  Actually, it looks like only
MIPS has Ethernet drivers outside of dev/ at a quick glance, but I'd
be surprised if there weren't other broken examples.

Juli.