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Date:      Wed, 7 Nov 2001 20:30:10 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dummynet requires pseudo-device ether (?)
Message-ID:  <20011107203010.G301@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011108092808.A83416@svzserv.kemerovo.su>; from eugen@grosbein.pp.ru on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:28:09AM %2B0700
References:  <20011108001734.A90154@grosbein.pp.ru> <20011107170348.E301@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011108092808.A83416@svzserv.kemerovo.su>

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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:28:09AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:03:48PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> 
> > > It seems that make cleandir is useless if obj directory was erased completely.
> > > Anyway, I tried this and nothing changed.
> > It's for cleaning junk that sometimes finds its way into the /usr/src
> > tree.
> 
> How can junk appear in /usr/src?

It happens.

> Isn't /usr/src supposed to reside on read-only filesystem?

I typically export it read-only over NFS, but it's writable on its
local machine for running 'cvs update' and hacking code in the tree. I
expect most people do not devote a filesystem to /usr/src, and most
people probably don't have read-only /usr.

> > > > as some people including me had similar problems with the linux-
> > > > part during  make buildkernel <KERNEL>
> > > 
> > > It fact, I looked into source and believe that dummynet code depends
> > > of ether code in recent STABLE. Is it supposed behavour now? It was not.
> > 
> > Can you give us, as precise as possible, the last build that worked
> > with dummynet and without ether? It does look like this dependency has
> > crept in.
> 
> That was after 4.4-RELEASE and before last entry about dummynet has appeared
> in /usr/src/UPDATING. It seems that last MFC made this dependency.

I'll have a look.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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