On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:07:11AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On Apr 21, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: > > Hi,
Hi > > I fear the change is too big for me to review currently. Given that the majority of changes break backwards compatibility in some way I intend to comitting them in one pass rather than splitting them up, which unfortunately results in a rather large patch ... > > One thing I am still pondering is whether we would be able to reserve enough > spares (wherever needed) to be able to eventually allow to query-through and > gather a lot more information than we currently expose via ifconfig. It > would be really great to be able to ask for all the bits. Not sure how linux > for example handles that for mii-tool/ethtool or how those things work, but > .. well you get it. > Providing functionality akin mii-tool/ethtool is also something I'd like to see. Unfortunately, I currently lack the time to work on that, maybe next year as a GSoC or some such, in case someone is willing to mentor this time :) However, I think when going a route similar to pci(4)/pciconf(8) (without repeating their mistakes) it should be possible to implement that without breaking the ABI. Marius _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
