svn commit: r320897 - in stable/11/sys: conf dev/ixgbe modules/ix modules/ixv

[Sean Bruno]

Just so that its clear, this will be changed back to the original string
shortly.

sean

On 07/12/17 11:16, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 	For stable users, can the loader.conf variable not be the original one
> ? Especially for servers that are physically remote, a sysadmin might
> expect (wrongly or not) for the name not the change in a stable branch.
> If the box is remote, they would not be able to see the new dmesg error.
> Rather than change the name, perhaps a deprecation warning saying "In
> FreeBSD 12, this will be hw.ix.allow_unsupported_sfp" ?
> 
> 	---Mike
> 
> 
> On 7/12/2017 12:35 PM, Eric Joyner wrote:
>> Olivier,
>>
>> There is a message about it in dmesg, right? For the error code, there's
>> not much we can do there aside from adding a new unsupported SFP+ code to
>> errno.h, which doesn't seem appropriate.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:27 AM Olivier Cochard-Labbé <olivier at freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Eric Joyner <erj at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it may have been silently renamed to "allow_unsupported_sfp"
>>>> instead of "unsupported_sfp". Could you try changing the name of that
>>>> tunable in your config?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ​Thanks Eric!
>>>
>>> Replacing this previous line into my /boot/loader.conf
>>> hw.ix.unsupported_sfp="1"
>>> by this new one:
>>> hw.ix.allow_unsupported_sfp="1"​
>>>
>>>
>>> ​solved the problem: -) but this broke POLA :-(
>>>
>>> And the default behavior is not very sysadmin friendly:
>>> How, with the message "device_attach: ix0 attach returned 5" and no more
>>> ix interface detected, can I know it just came from using unsupported SFP ?
>>>
>>>
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