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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        Munehiro Matsuda <haro@tk.kubota.co.jp>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, ak@freenet.co.uk
Subject:   Re: ether_ifattach() change and VMware
Message-ID:  <200007141546.IAA10317@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000714202839P.haro@tk.kubota.co.jp> from Munehiro Matsuda at "Jul 14, 2000 08:28:39 pm"

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Munehiro Matsuda writes:
> ::  Make all Ethernet drivers attach using ether_ifattach() and detach using
> ::  ether_ifdetach().
> 
> After the commit, VMware seems to hang the system at boot time.
> The "vmnet" module, that comes with VMware, needs the included patch.

OK, I'm CC:'ing the port maintainer..

> Shouldn't we bump version or something, due to the kernel API change?

Good idea.. I just did that.

> --- vmnet-only/freebsd/vmnet.c.org	Fri Jul 14 16:18:50 2000
> +++ vmnet-only/freebsd/vmnet.c	Fri Jul 14 16:21:51 2000
> @@ -156,9 +156,7 @@
>  	DLog(Linfo, DEVICE_NAME "%d: Ethernet address: %6D", ifp->if_unit, sc->iface.arpcom.ac_enaddr, ":");
>  
>  	s = splimp();
> -	if_attach(ifp);
> -	ether_ifattach(ifp);
> -	bpfattach(ifp, DLT_EN10MB, sizeof(struct ether_header));
> +	ether_ifattach(ifp, ETHER_BPF_SUPPORTED);
>  	splx(s);
>  	
>  	return 0;

-Archie

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