[Bug 202663] small mistake: advisory FreeBSD-EN-15:14 mentions 82559 fast ethernet controller

[bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org]

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202663

--- Comment #2 from Diego Casati <diego.casati at gmail.com> ---


Interesting finding. Unless the issue only manifests on the 82599 chipset, I'd
say we could try something a little different on a two fold approach: #1 reword
the advisory and #2 update the man page with a caveat section.

#1 - Reword of the advisory (patch provided):

Because the patch affects the entire ixgbe(4) driver, to be in conformance with
what the man page says, I'd suggest the advisory to read:

    No workaround is available, but systems that do not have Intel(R) 82598EB
series 10Gb Ethernet Controllers are not affected. 

The man page for ixgbe states the following:

DESCRIPTION                                                                   
     The ixgbe driver provides support for PCI 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on
     the Intel 82598EB Intel(R) Network Connections.  The driver supports     
     Jumbo Frames, MSIX, TSO, and RSS. 

#2 - Caveat section (patch provided):

Since this option is now the default on ixgbe we could add that in a caveat
section of the man page for the driver (following examples of others such as
ral(4).

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.