replacement and has additional features which make it superior.
Discussed on: -arch
Reviewed by: thompsa
X-MFC-after: never (RELENG_6 as transition period)
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
some of which are rather serious:
- Use the device sysctl tree instead of rolling our own.
- Don't create a bus_dmamap_t to pass to bus_dmamem_alloc(), it is
bus_dmamem_alloc() that creates it itself. The DMA map created
by the driver was overwritten and its memory was leaked.
- Fix resource handling bugs in the error path of ixgb_dma_alloc().
- Don't use vtophys() to get the base address of the TX and RX rings
when busdma already gave us the correct address to use!
- Remove now useless includes and the alpha_XXX_dmamap() hack.
- Don't initialize if_output to ether_output(), ether_ifattach() does
it for us already.
- Add proper module dependencies on ether and pci.
Unfortunately, I'm not lucky enough to own an ixgb(4) card, nor a
machine with a bus where to plug it in and I couldn't find anyone able
to test these patches, so they are only build-tested and I won't MFC
them for 5.4-RELEASE.
been developed for use with FreeBSD, version 4.8 and later.
Submitted by: Hema Joyce
Reviewed by: Prafulla Deuskar
Approved by: Prafulla Deuskar
MFC after: 1 week
