Author: thompsa
Date: Wed Nov 11 02:07:01 2009
New Revision: 199167
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199167

Log:
  MFC r198859
  
   Belatedly add an UPDATING message for the usb ethernet ifnet naming in 
r188412.

Modified:
  stable/8/UPDATING   (contents, props changed)

Modified: stable/8/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/UPDATING   Wed Nov 11 01:33:06 2009        (r199166)
+++ stable/8/UPDATING   Wed Nov 11 02:07:01 2009        (r199167)
@@ -471,6 +471,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
                # Map old usb library to new one for usb2 stack
                libusb-0.1.so.8 libusb20.so.1
 
+20090209:
+       All USB ethernet devices now attach as interfaces under the name ueN
+       (eg. ue0). This is to provide a predictable name as vendors often
+       change usb chipsets in a product without notice.
+
 20090203:
        The ichsmb(4) driver has been changed to require SMBus slave
        addresses be left-justified (xxxxxxx0b) rather than right-justified.
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