From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 31 22:28:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6723916A4CE for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:28:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from c00l3r.networx.ch (c00l3r.networx.ch [62.48.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C5943D45 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:28:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 90442 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2004 22:26:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) ([62.48.0.54]) (envelope-sender ) by c00l3r.networx.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 31 Aug 2004 22:26:33 -0000 Message-ID: <4134FB98.6A3822BC@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:28:40 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <20040831203929.GB25134@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Sam cc: Scott Long cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: option directive and turning on AOE X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:28:42 -0000 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