In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archie Cobbs writes:
: 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?
No.
: 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.
Already does that.
: So why is it a separate option?
because it is a driver. Why is pci a separate driver? While most
computers have it, not all do. Likewise with miibus.
Warner
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