MII-compliant PHY drivers. Many 10/100 ethernet NICs available today
either use an MII transceiver or have built-in transceivers that can
be programmed using an MII interface. It makes sense then to separate
this support out into common code instead of duplicating it in all
of the NIC drivers. The mii code also handles all of the media
detection, selection and reporting via the ifmedia interface.
This is basically the same code from NetBSD's /sys/dev/mii, except
it's been adapted to FreeBSD's bus architecture. The advantage to this
is that it automatically allows everything to be turned into a
loadable module. There are some common functions for use in drivers
once an miibus has been attached (mii_mediachg(), mii_pollstat(),
mii_tick()) as well as individual PHY drivers. There is also a
generic driver for all PHYs that aren't handled by a specific driver.
It's possible to do this because all 10/100 PHYs implement the same
general register set in addition to their vendor-specific register
sets, so for the most part you can use one driver for pretty much
any PHY. There are a couple of oddball exceptions though, hence
the need to have specific drivers.
There are two layers: the generic "miibus" layer and the PHY driver
layer. The drivers are child devices of "miibus" and the "miibus" is
a child of a given NIC driver. The "miibus" code and the PHY drivers
can actually be compiled and kldoaded as completely separate modules
or compiled together into one module. For the moment I'm using the
latter approach since the code is relatively small.
Currently there are only three PHY drivers here: the generic driver,
the built-in 3Com XL driver and the NS DP83840 driver. I'll be adding
others later as I convert various NIC drivers to use this code.
I realize that I'm cvs adding this stuff instead of importing it
onto a separate vendor branch, but in my opinion the import approach
doesn't really offer any significant advantage: I'm going to be
maintaining this stuff and writing my own PHY drivers one way or
the other.
leaked memory on each unload and were limited to items referenced in
the kernel copy of vnode_if.c. Now a kernel module is free to create
it's own VOP_FOO() routines and the rest of the system will happily
deal with it, including passthrough layers like union/umap/etc.
Have VFS_SET() call a common vfs_modevent() handler rather than
inline duplicating the common code all over the place.
Have VNODEOP_SET() have the vnodeops removed at unload time (assuming a
module) so that the vop_t ** vector is reclaimed.
Slightly adjust the vop_t ** vectors so that calling slot 0 is a panic
rather than a page fault. This could happen if VOP_something() was called
without *any* handlers being present anywhere (including in vfs_default.c).
slot 1 becomes the default vector for the vnodeop table.
TODO: reclaim zones on unload (eg: nfs code)
as the value in b_vp is often not really what you want.
(and needs to be frobbed). more cleanups will follow this.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
single typedef) is now declared in <sys/types.h>.
This is the first of 4 commits that will remove some excessive
includes of vm*.h and user.h. The total speed improvement isn't
as large as I first thought. `make depend; make' for LINT only
improved from 2180 seconds to 2108 seconds user time.
definitions even though the functions are inline. If vnode_if.h was
compiled by a non-ANSI compiler, then `inline' would be defined away,
so vnode_if.h might compile correctly.
wrong vp's ops vector being used by changing the VOP_LINK's argument order.
The special-case hack doesn't go far enough and breaks the generic
bypass routine used in some non-leaf filesystems. Pointed out by Kirk
McKusick.
might not be handled by the same FS as the directory (e.g. special device
files)...so it must be special-cased. This bug is seen when doing
"ln /dev/console /dev/foo" or equivilent and first appeared after I fixed
the argument order of VOP_LINK. YUCK! There really needs to be a way of
specifying what vp to use in the VCALL; doing this could fix the strategy
and bwrite special-cases, too.
