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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:19:00 -0800
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r215132 - head/sys/dev/nfe
Message-ID:  <20101111191900.GC17566@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101111183409.GA1011@pluto.vnode.local>
References:  <201011111808.oABI8olX079570@svn.freebsd.org> <20101111183409.GA1011@pluto.vnode.local>

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:34:09PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote:
> On 11-11-2010 18:08, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > Author: yongari
> > Date: Thu Nov 11 18:08:50 2010
> > New Revision: 215132
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/215132
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add basic WOL support for MCP ethernet controllers. It seems the
> >   controller does not perform automatic switching from 1000Mbps link
> >   to 10/100Mbps link when WOL is activated. Implement establishing
> >   10/100Mps link with auto-negotiation in driver. Link status change
> >   handler was modified to remove taskqueue based approach since driver
> >   now needs synchronous handling for link establishment.
> 
> Somewhat unrelated but this commit reminds me of something: why do we still
> keep the nve driver?  I thought nfe was written as a replacement years ago?
> 

Perhaps to address edge cases not covered by nfe(4)?
Personally I don't know any of them.



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