Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:28:40 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: option directive and turning on AOE Message-ID: <4134FB98.6A3822BC@freebsd.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408311611550.7530@athena> <20040831203929.GB25134@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:27:33PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > Sam wrote: > > > > >I've added code to if_ethersubr.c:/ether_demux/ > > >to queue up AoE frames as they appear. I followed > > >suit with other protocols and included my addition > > >inside of an #ifdef AOE. Where do I turn this on? > > >I thought perhaps just adding an 'option AOE' to > > >the config would do it, but it doesn't -- so clearly > > >I don't understand how the option directive works. > > >The config man page doesn't talk about option/device > > >directives ... > > > > > >I'm still looking, but a clue would be well received. > > > > Did you modify /sys/conf/options to tell it about your > > AOE option? If so, then you should have specified the name > > of a header file that the option would be #define'd into. > > Include that header file in if_ethersubr.c and you should > > have no problems. > > > > Incidentally, this might be an area when netgraph would be > > useful. Instead of having an AoE specific hook in the > > stack, you could have an AoE netgraph module that uses the > > existing netgraph hooks. It's just an idea, though. > > Another option might be a PFIL hook. There isn't one there now, but I > think I've seen talk of adding one. Actually, if we did that, we could > get most of the netgraph specific hooks out of the ethernet code. What is AoE? And what kind of Frames does it come in? -- Andre
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