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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2019 20:02:08 +0200
From:      Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd@intel.com
Subject:   Re: SVN r353868 breaks net/intel-em-kmod
Message-ID:  <335E057C-1529-4774-B655-6A1CADA2DF11@lastsummer.de>
In-Reply-To: <20191024175642.GN4086@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <d622987a-2527-d652-3a06-a2a138b6abaf@protected-networks.net> <20191024175642.GN4086@FreeBSD.org>

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> On 24. Oct 2019, at 7:56 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:12:10AM -0400, Michael Butler wrote:
> M> The removal of these KPIs yields:
> M> 
> M> link_elf_obj: symbol if_multiaddr_array undefined
> M> linker_load_file: /boot/modules/if_em_updated.ko - unsupported file type
> 
> What's the reason to keep these outside of the tree drivers?

Unmodified and newer drivers for older FreeBSD versions.

In particular, 11.x had unfortunate and latent regressions
regarding link negotiation (chipset subset) and netmap support.


Cheers,
Franco



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