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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:07:01 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r199167 - stable/8
Message-ID:  <200911110207.nAB2716I079120@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: thompsa
Date: Wed Nov 11 02:07:01 2009
New Revision: 199167
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199167

Log:
  MFC r198859
  
   Belatedly add an UPDATING message for the usb ethernet ifnet naming in r188412.

Modified:
  stable/8/UPDATING   (contents, props changed)

Modified: stable/8/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/UPDATING	Wed Nov 11 01:33:06 2009	(r199166)
+++ stable/8/UPDATING	Wed Nov 11 02:07:01 2009	(r199167)
@@ -471,6 +471,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
 		# Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
 		libusb-0.1.so.8	libusb20.so.1
 
+20090209:
+	All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
+	(eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
+	change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
+
 20090203:
 	The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
 	addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.



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