Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:19:09 +0400 From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r257184 - in head/sys/dev: mii usb/net xl Message-ID: <20131027071909.GH52889@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonmXgQUOFDw=ZHYXVbsNS54vUwCXt8JiZ=mKENvG85F9Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <201310261840.r9QIeH89083767@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-VmonmXgQUOFDw=ZHYXVbsNS54vUwCXt8JiZ=mKENvG85F9Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:57:04PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: A> hm, so none of the modified PHYs nor their consumers will get upset? A> Eg, if the NIC is down, is touching the PHY registers going to be a A> problem? The IFF_UP was always an administrative flag. I believe drivers initialize all their resources before being set an address with SIOCSIFADDR. If a driver doesn't, then the previous code still was racy. Anyway, I am going to handle any fallouts. -- Totus tuus, Glebius.
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