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Date:      Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:16:04 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Maxim.Sobolev@portaone.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/re if_re.c 
Message-ID:  <20050818231503.F34984@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <25621.1124402605@phk.freebsd.dk>
References:  <25621.1124402605@phk.freebsd.dk>

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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> Ideally, I'd like to see device drivers stop setting or clearing 
>> stack-owned bits, such as IFF_UP, IFF_PROMISC, etc.  However, we 
>> probably have a ways to go before we're there.
>
> I belive if the driver doesn't to this, you have to explicity specify 
> "up" on the ifconfig command line.

Many perfectly functional drivers work just fine without directly frobbing 
the flag -- if_em, if_fxp, if_xl, etc.

Robert N M Watson



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