Warner Losh writes:
> : not marked. I noticed that 4.1 Release miibus is still not
> : marked as (required), is it no longer required, or is it still
> : not marked? I ahven't tried compiling it with miibus commented
> : out, I'm just assuming it's still required
>
> miibus is still required for any ethernet card with a mii. Which is
> basically all of them produced in the last few years. my trusty
> ne2000 doesn't need it :-)
Would you ever want "miibus" even if you're NOT using any of
the cards that require it?
I guess you might need it to be able to KLD load one of those
drivers.. ? But that's no argument becuse you could just have
a miibus.ko that was a dependency of those drivers.
So why is it a separate option?
-Archie
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