igb and ALTQ in 9.1-rc3

[Jack Vogel]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 03:31:19PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote:
> J> UH, maybe asking the owner of the driver would help :)
> J>
> J> ... and no, I've never been aware of doing anything to stop supporting
> altq
> J> so you wouldn't see any commits. If there's something in the altq code
> or
> J> support (which I have nothing to do with) that caused this no-one
> informed
> J> me.
>
> Switching from if_start to if_transmit effectively disables ALTQ support.
>
> AFAIR, there is some magic implemented in other drivers that makes them
> modern (that means using if_transmit), but still capable to switch to
> queueing
> mode if SIOCADDALTQ was casted upon them.
>
>
Oh, hmmm, I'll look into the matter after my vacation.

Jack