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Subject: GENERIC needs improved comments for MII NICs
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>Number:         21981
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       GENERIC needs improved comments for MII NICs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 13 21:00:02 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Sat Oct 28 15:34:10 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Sat Oct 28 15:34:23 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Matthew Emmerton
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

GENERIC lacks a descriptive comment instructing users to retain the 
'device miibus' line if they wish to use any of the MII-based NICs

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:

--- /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.orig	Fri Oct 13 23:51:32 2000
+++ /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC	Fri Oct 13 23:53:02 2000
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@
 device		wx		# Intel Gigabit Ethernet Card (``Wiseman'')
 
 # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
+# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
 device		miibus		# MII bus support
 device		dc		# DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
 device		pcn		# AMD Am79C79x PCI 10/100 NICs

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: alex 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Oct 13 23:26:17 PDT 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled PR 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21981 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: nik 
State-Changed-When: Sat Oct 28 15:34:10 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed, thanks. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21981 
>Unformatted:
