On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 06:58:26PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> Here is a NetBSD port of the Intel 82599 10-gigabit ethernet driver from
> FreeBSD,
> <ftp://elmendorf.ojctech.com/users/netbsd-08c5a58c/ixgbe.patch>.
>
> To try it out, apply the patch and add this line to your kernel
> configuration:
>
> ixg* at pci? dev ? function ? # Intel 8259x 10 gigabit
The driver which you just commited has files which are named ixgbe*
Is there any reason why the driver name couldn't be then ixgbe(4) too?
I would find it more natural to have a source code which matches the
driver name.
Bernd
P.S. Thank you for the NetBSD port of the driver.
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I believe users expect a correspondence between the device unit names
(ixg0..ixgN) and the manual name. I know I do. That is the reason for
the manual name.
I have found that changing FreeBSD filenames/paths too severely creates
a lot of pain down the road, so I did not consider that.
BTW, in FreeBSD, the driver attaches as ix0, but the ix(4) name is taken
in NetBSD by the "Intel EtherExpress/16 Ethernet ISA bus NIC driver," so
I used the next shortest name, ixg(4).
> P.S. Thank you for the NetBSD port of the driver.
Thanks to Coyote Point Systems, Inc., for sponsoring the port!
Dave
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