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Date:      Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:59:16 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Eric Joyner <erj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem building dev/e1000
Message-ID:  <39629f6cb41cff32b348cf5d329d425352c28464.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <652F1541-52DE-4744-8AEA-8EE6434E04E8@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2019-02-15 at 10:53 -0800, Enji Cooper wrote:
> > On Feb 15, 2019, at 10:46, Eric Joyner <erj@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > ifdi_if.h is a system generated interface file that network drivers
> > that depend on iflib use. It's generated from ifdi_if.m in sys/net.
> > 
> > My guess is that you don't have "device iflib" defined in your
> > kernel configuration. em(4) depends on iflib in FreeBSD 12/13, and
> > with r343617, iflib is now explicitly a module that needs to be
> > included in your kernel config if you want to use a driver that
> > depends on it. It's already in the GENERIC kernel for amd64; are
> > you using a kernel config file that doesn't inherit from GENERIC?
> 
> HO Eric!
> 
> iflib was a recently added requirement on stable/12 IIRC..?
> 
> Does the manpage note this dependency, and is there an UPDATING entry
> for this change?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Enji
> 

My question would be: why? If some drivers have a new dependency on
iflib, why isn't that expressed in sys/conf/files and handled
automatically?

-- Ian




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