Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:26:32 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, stable@freebsd.org, esperti@gufi.org Subject: Re: strange problem with: ed driver / 4.9-PRE Message-ID: <20030916222632.GF91404@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030916071956.GA25582@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20030916073154.03af28a8@194.184.65.4> <20030916062637.GA25332@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20030916084546.0305c1c0@194.184.65.4> <20030916071956.GA25582@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On 2003-Sep-16 09:19:56 +0200, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: >(A quick look at the source indicates that there are some other drivers >that do not meet those assumptions either, so a proper fix should >include changing ifconfig(8) to make fewer assumptions but such a >change would require lots of testing to make sure it is correct.) I've bumped into this with the vlan driver as well. I believe the fix is to patch ifconfig(8) so that it checks for "DEVICE" as well as "if_DEVICE" and skips the load if either is found. I don't believe this change is especially risky. Peter
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