On May 23, 2011, at 10:32 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, May 23, 2011 10:13:41 am Philip Soeberg wrote: >> I would also expect the ixgbe.c driver to do a quick resource_disabled() >> in it's attach() function, so that we can disable specific adapters >> through kenv hint.ix.0.disabled=1.. > > That is not universally supported (i.e. it's not a part of new-bus > specifically). For buses that support hinted devices, they do all generally > support being able to disable a hinted device, but disabling bus-enumerated > devices is not generally supported. >
FYI, I submitted a patch to Jack to add this in all of the e1000/ixgbe drivers. Setting a disabled="1" hint causes the attach to fail with ENXIO. I don't know if it's 'correct' or not but it serves a purpose in our testing and I thought it would be useful for others. -Andrew -------------------------------------------------- Andrew Boyer abo...@averesystems.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
