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authorthompsa <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-11 02:07:01 +0000
committerthompsa <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-11 02:07:01 +0000
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MFC r198859
Belatedly add an UPDATING message for the usb ethernet ifnet naming in r188412.
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@@ -471,6 +471,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW ON IA64 OR SUN4V:
# 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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